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Posted On: 06/12/2018 9:41:11 AM
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Re: wowhappens28 #12475
Speaking of 'questionable tactics', look to conservative misinformation and anti-science bias for increasing the risk of disease:
As for the vaccine? As always, risks vs. benefits. if condoms are 70% effective at preventing HPV, you're still left with the risks for at least the 30% for whom they're not effective or an unknown number where condom use is...........inconsistent.
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Condoms have been shown convincingly to prevent pregnancy and AIDS. But conservatives who want to see abstinence taught in schools have long argued that condoms do not protect well against diseases such as HPV, because men can spread the virus to women from sores on their genitals outside the area covered by a condom.
However, the researchers at the University of Washington found that the chances of HPV being spread that way appear to be small.
As for the vaccine? As always, risks vs. benefits. if condoms are 70% effective at preventing HPV, you're still left with the risks for at least the 30% for whom they're not effective or an unknown number where condom use is...........inconsistent.
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Does the Gardasil Vaccine Come With Crippling Side Effects?
A prominent anti-vaccine web site has promoted heartbreaking stories of illnesses and deaths which they say are a direct result of the Gardasil vaccine, but the causal links are just speculation.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/08/gardasil-vaccine/
Ultimately, when dealing with increases in odds as low as 1 or 2 cases out of 100,000, it is hard to parse out any signal from noise, and any risk (if it exists at all) needs to be weighed against the risk of developing cervical cancer from the HPV virus — which is much more likely than developing an autoimmune disorder from the HPV vaccine.
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the developing world, and is responsible for almost 260,000 deaths each year. Research consistently shows that HPV vaccination successfully reduces the incidence of cervical cancer-causing HPV infections, saving the lives of many women.
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