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November 01, 2007
More from the FUTURE
So much to do treating sick people, and we are constantly treated to the same old garbage recycled. I posted several times on HPV and Gardasil, but they keep at it. According to Family Practice News, the FUTURE spokesman reported some new late-breaking findings to the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
It seems that several subtypes (see the above links for a brief explanation) of HPV that are occasionally associated with high-grade cervical changes are also prevented by the quadrivalent vaccine, even though they are not included in the vaccine. This is not unexpected. They tested by species, rather than by individual subtypes, and the small print says why. There are so few of these rarer subtypes that they couldn't afford to actually study them. Also, remember that they are not looking at cancers or deaths prevented because these are years down the road. They are at persistent infection, and CIN 2/3 and AIS, a far-cry from cancer, lesions from which many women convert back to normal, unless they are damaged and will never have a normal Pap again.
This misinformation is being used to step up the ad campaign, and to extend it to men. This is wrong. That is a judgment.
| By Robert Maddox | 10:48 PM