Ravenmoon
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Forced vaccinations for UK schoolgirls |
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| Quote: | http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071026/ ... 995_2.html
LONDON (Reuters) - All girls aged 12 to 13 in England will be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, the government said on Friday.
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From next autumn, girls will receive three injections at school over six months in a move that could save up to 400 lives each year, the Department of Health said.
Teenagers up to the age 18 will also be vaccinated during a one-off programme lasting two years. The scheme is also expected to be adopted in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"As a society, we need to do more to prevent disease and not just treat it," Health Secretary Alan Johnson said in a statement.
The move is a boost for drugmakers Merck & Co and Sanofi-Aventis, which jointly market the vaccine Gardasil. GlaxoSmithKline offers another cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix.
The Department of Health has not decided which of the two drugs it will buy, but said it was unlikely that it would use both at the same time.
"It is highly likely it will be one or the other," the department's Director of Immunisation, Professor David Salisbury, told a news conference.
Britain is the latest European country to offer the vaccine routinely to girls, following similar moves by Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Norway.
Many other countries around the world have also opted for vaccination, on the basis the investment will save lives and healthcare costs in the years ahead.
Gardasil and Cervarix work by cutting the risk of infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions, as well as genital warts.
The injections are given to young girls because the vaccines do not work once a patient is already infected. |
Hows that for freedom of choice & don't get me started on vaccines !!!
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elohim
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Location: Ipswich
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: FDA knew HPV not associated with cervical cancer!!! |
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| Quote: | The FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that "most infections (by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer", in recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since 1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in regulating the industry.
NaturalNews sought to verify the existence of the FDA news release referenced by this petition reclassification document and found that, indeed, the FDA news release exists. In fact, it's still posted on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html |
http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html
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