[PROVE] Condoms Unlikely to Offer Protection from ACIP approval on HPV Vaccine

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Dear PROVE Members,

Next week, on June 29th, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices (ACIP) is meeting to decide whether to add the HPV vaccine to the

CHILDHOOD vaccine schedule. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that even the

vaccine manufacturer admits the majority of women clear up on their own. Only a

small percentage of women are at higher risk for cervical cancer from

contracting 2 strains of the virus targeted in the vaccine. This is where the

rubber is going to meet the road for ACIP: instead of looking at the results of

a new study that shows CONDOMS ARE NOW PROVEN TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE

TRANSMISSION OF HPV, ACIP will do what they always do and RUBBER STAMP yet

another vaccine for universal use and stick it to our 9 year old daughters with

little regard for the long term unknown health consequences.

Manufacturing a vaccine and making it available is one thing, and encouraging it

and promoting it while protecting informed consent is yet another, but when ACIP

makes a universal recommendation, that action alone sets the wheels in motion

for automatic school mandates in some states and legislative and bureaucratic

initiatives to mandate it in the remaining states, massive federal purchasing

and distribution costing taxpayers millions of dollars, higher insurance

premiums for all to cover the cost of those privately insured, sweeping

liability protections for the vaccine manufacturer when children are hurt by the

vaccine, and discrimination and harassment against families who are not

confident in the safety, efficacy, or necessity of the vaccine for their child.

Less than half the states have philosophical/conscientious exemptions for

vaccine mandates leaving most opposed to this vaccine for such a young child

without a legal way out. The three doses required of this vaccine will cost

close to $400 while the protection of vaccine is only shown so far to last for 3

1/2 years. (Just what every 9 year old girl needs?)

PREDICTION: Watch this get added to the vaccine schedule by ACIP next week but

stay tuned for really educating yourself on the downside and unknowns with this

vaccine (which is ironically not tested for whether or not it can itself cause

cancer) because ACIP never met a vaccine it didn't like. Parents need to

realize that what is good for Merck's pocketbook isn't necessarily what is best

for their child's health, and that they need to really become educated on this

HPV vaccine and make their own informed decision regardless of ACIP's

predictable blessing.

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Condoms help protect against cervical cancer

Landmark study offers proof of reduction in disease-causing HPV infections

The Associated Press

Updated: 4:56 p.m. CT June 21, 2006

For the first time, scientists have proof that condoms offer women impressive

protection against the virus that causes cervical cancer.

A three-year study of female college students — all virgins at the start — found

that women whose partners always wore a condom during sex were 70 percent less

likely to become infected with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, than those

whose partners used protection less than 5 percent of the time.

“That’s pretty awesome. There aren’t too many times when you can have an

intervention that would offer so much protection,” said Dr. Kloser, an

infectious-disease specialist at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New

Jersey who was not part of the study.

The rest of this article can be read at URL:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13461194/

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Merck's $4 billion PR problem

A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer looks set to be a blockbuster -- but

resistance from parents and patient advocates could trip it up.

By Simons, FORTUNE writer

June 5, 2006: 8:13 AM EDT

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Merck has already angered Christian conservatives by

pushing to make its yet-to-be approved cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil,

mandatory for girls as young as nine. But that could be the least of the

company's worries regarding the projected $4 billion-a-year vaccine.

The rest of this article can be read at URL:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/02/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/

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Dawn

PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)

prove@... (email)

http://vaccineinfo.net/ (web site)

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