HPV Vaccine

[DVCLiz]

Have you or will you get this new vaccine for your 11 to 13 year old daughter? Will anyone get this for a son? I was just curious since it is so new. Both of my DDs will get this as soon as it becomes available in our area.

 

[wilderness01]

I will get it for my daughter next year when it has been around for over a year. I thought it was for girls only though.

 

[Tinijocaro]

One of the ingredients is the foreskin of newborn babies. No thanks.

 

[lil mermaid]

I'd get it for her now, if I could.

 

[bsnyder]

I just recently heard about this for the first time. I haven't talked to my 12 year old DD's pediatrician about it yet, but if he recommends it (and I'm assuming he will) then I will have DD vacinated.

 

[lil mermaid]

One of the ingredients is the foreskin of newborn babies. No thanks.

Do you have a source for that information?

 

[minniecarousel]

One of the ingredients is the foreskin of newborn babies. No thanks.

link please

 

[beckmrk04]

I don't have to worry about it for oh, about 11 years and 5 months.... But I DO think it's a great idea. So many people carry HPV and have no clue until they end up with cervical cancer or unexplained infertility.

 

[Tinijocaro]

link please

"Instead, said Robert Rose, an immunologist working with Bonnez, the Rochester team tried grafting bits of foreskin collected from hospital circumcisions and infected with genital wart extract into mice lacking the ability to reject foreign tissue. The resulting cysts contained enough human virus to work with.

Ultimately, the two vaccines were the fruit of the labors of dozens of scientists. A patent battle involving the National Cancer Institute, the University of Rochester, Georgetown University and Queensland University in Australia was resolved after 13 years when Merck and Glaxo signed royalty agreements with all four."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/30/healthscience/snvaccine.php#

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

My friend works for the FDA and he forwarded an alert to me this week that said the recommendation is to vaccinate all girls ages 9-26. It protects against 4 strains of HPV and even if someone is already infected with one strain it will protect against the others.

If I had a daughter I would vaccinate her, even though the vaccine is like 3 doses over a 6 month period which sounds like a bit of an inconvenience. (Not nearly as inconvenient as cervical cancer, though!)

 

[minniecarousel]

Well, I couldn't get that link to work. But I think if we knew where most of the vaccines we use come from, it'd make us at least a little squemish.

I have no daughters, but it sounds like a sound and sensible vaccine to have.

 

[CEDmom]

My DD is only 7 but I'll have her vaccinated when the time comes. As far as where vaccines come from it really is fasinating. I know one fertility drug I took was made from the urine of menopausal Italian nuns.

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

Scientifically speaking, it was a growth medium for the virus rather than an ingredient of the vaccine.

 

[fivefordisney]

If the vaccine can prevent my daughters from getting cervical cancer, we will absolutely be in line to get it--even if the vaccine involves recycling the foreskins of babies. Can you imagine if I decided against this vaccine and one of my daughters found that she had cervical cancer? Ugh...I don't even want to think about it.

 

[MainStMandy]

Just an FYI, check with your insurance companies...I work for a very large insurance company and we don't have a definite answer for our policy holders on whether or not the vaccine will be covered. It is going to be a series of 3 shots and right now all we can tell our members is that the first shot will more than likely be covered....

 

[kandeebunny]

Is this a live vaccine?

 

[LisaNJ25]

I sure will. My younger sister has the hpv virus.

Here is some more information:

"Approximately 20 million people are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year"


To the other poster I am not sure if it is offered to boys but I just read thi "HPV is very common in both men and women. It's difficult to develop specific estimates for men, since large studies among males have not been done in the United States, and an FDA-approved HPV test for men is not available. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than half of American men will get HPV at some point in their lives.

Ba

 

[beckmrk04]

My younger sister has the hpv virus.
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Mine too.

 

[Viki]

Yup, my 18 year old daughter got her first shot two days ago.

As a former developmental geneticist, let me assure you that there is no foreskin (or cells derived from such) in the vaccine.

To fill out the picture, let me add it is a virus-like particle (which means it is an empty virus having viral proteins, but no nucleic acids, so it can't replicate), produced in yeast.

I hope this helps.

 

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

Why is the cut off 26?