Thursday, October 27, 2011

"What's Sauce for the Goose, is Sauce for the Gander" Gardasil Vaccine for Boys.

An old saying from my grandparent's generation: What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose" has now taken on a slightly new slant: "What's sauce for the goose, is now sauce for the gander."  What does this mean?  It means the CDC has now backed HPV Vaccines for boys.

The committee recommends that boys and young men ages 13 through 21, should be immunized with the HPV vaccine against the virus if they missed an earlier vaccination, according to Anne Schuchat MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. If this recommendation is formally accepted by the agency, it would, in a single stroke double the number of children who should get the 3 dose vaccine. It is already part of the recommended list of immunizations for girls 11 through 12 and up.  In fact, in California, the Gardasil vaccine has now become a mandated vaccine for school children.

The intent on the part of the CDC committee, recommending the vaccine for boys as well as girls, was, according to Dr. Schuchat, a hope for easing the burden of disease on females. Their excuse for the young age of the children being vaccinated was according to Dr. Schuchat, "The age of 11 or 12 is a very good time to be vaccinated - antibody or immune responses are the strongest - and that's well before girls or boys would become sexually active," she said.

How clever! So, for any parents who are offended at the suggestion that their 11 or 12 yr. old child, needs a vaccine for sexual activity, they believe this is a  plausible sounding excuse, to settle that concern.

What they don't tell you, is that the HPV vaccine, offered in this country to  protect young girls against cervical cancer and genital warts, does not protect against all forms of the Human Papilloma Virus, but only a few strains, which are mostly found in Asian countries. 

Dr. Diane Harper was recently given an opportunity to answer some questions about the HPV vaccine, which she herself helped to create. She stated, the HPV vaccine prevented abormal pap tests, NOT cervical cancer.  Really!  Yet, Dr. Jay Siwek, a professor of family medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, said that he tells parents the vaccine protects against cancers that occur in boys - mostly mouth and throat  (why do you suppose that particular body part?) and it helps protect girls from cancer as well.   I wonder who really was the original focal point for this vaccine?

Dr. Diane Harper, who actually helped create the vaccine would disagree with you Dr. Siwek. She goes on to say that she feels the FDA has given a "blanket approval to use Gardasil in males and females 9 - 26 yrs. old without making it clear to parents or males/females that the only data for male cancer preventions is in the MSM (gay men) community, NOT in heterosexual men."  Well, then my question is, why are we foisting this dangerous vaccine on our young boys - let alone our daughters?  Could there be an agenda here?  What specific sexual activities are they really trying to protect your child from ... and why?

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