Boys should get vaccine for HPV, too: Panel

[Sol Invictus]

A government panel wants young boys as well as girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine, in part to prevent them from spreading the sexually transmitted virus to girls.

The HPV vaccine has been recommended for young girls to protect them against cervical cancer and genital warts for the last five years. But the vaccine has been slow to catch on — only about a third of adolescent girls have gotten all three shots.

Experts say the HPV vaccine could protect boys against genital warts and some kinds of cancers. But they also say vaccinating 11- and 12-year old boys could help prevent them from spreading the human papilloma virus to girls.

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[Magister Eckhart]

1/3 is too many; no one has any idea what affect this will have on future breeding - frankly I'm not convinced it isn't itself more dangerous than any of the diseases it supposedly prevents.

[jerney]

couldn't the same thing be said for all vaccines developed in the past 50 or so years

[Tarja]

I had all my HPV vaccines done about 3 or 4 years ago, at school.