"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
>>
>> Janet B wrote:
>> >
>> > All medications come with fact sheets that lay out possible side
>> > effects. My grandsons have had the shots.
>>
>> Have you ever read those fact sheets though. They'll scare you away
>> from anything that you have to take. Even new drug commercials spend
>> more time telling you about the side effects rather than the benefits.
>>
>> IMO, this new vaccine should be up to the young teens.
>
> Most 12 yr olds have no concept of their own vulnerability to the
> commonest STD in USA; and you can hardly expect them to grasp it might
> kill them in one of several particularly horrible ways. Kids might
> "know" that people die from smoking, drugs, alcohol; but they are so
> sure it won't happen to them they do that stuff anyway.
>
>
> They are almost
>> adults and should be given the option whether to take them or not. Of
>> course, *some* teens are NOT sexually active so they don't need the
>> vaccine until they do start having sex.
>
> You miss the point. Young teens might not be having penetrative
> intercourse, but they may be open-mouth kissing and mutually
> masturbating, and HPV can be transmitted by both.
>>
>> It's a fairly new drug and very untested as to long term effects. I
>> never had it and neither did you. My daughter never got it either.
>
> Maybe you both have HPV.
>
> http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm
>
> "HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). HPV is
> so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get it at some
> point in their lives."
>
> Janet.

So? Most people don't die from it either or even get cancer.