Vaccinations for 11yr old boys

[Akzle]

If anyone needs me, I'll be hanging from the roof in my shed.

you're into extreme hammocking too?

we have so much in common...

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Because straight guys have zero risk of getting STDs, right?

[Drew]

Because straight guys have zero risk of getting STDs, right?

The risk of getting a sexually transmitted issue, is greatly increased in opposite sex, sexual encounters.

What are you getting at?

[blue rider]

Hasn't the one for girls just been found to be unsafe? Guardasil or something, or am I barking up the wrong power pole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardasil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus from the papillomavirus family that is capable of infecting humans. Like all papillomaviruses, HPVs establish productive infections only in keratinocytes of the skin or mucous membranes. While the majority of the known types of HPV cause no symptoms in most people, some types can cause warts (verrucae), while others can—in a minority of cases—lead to cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, oropharynx and anus.[1] Recently, HPV has been linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.[2] In addition, HPV 16 and 18 infections are strongly associated with an increased odds ratio of developing oropharyngeal (throat) cancer.[3]
More than 30 to 40 types of HPV are typically transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. Some sexually transmitted HPV types may cause genital warts. Persistent infection with "high-risk" HPV types—different from the ones that cause skin warts—may progress to precancerous lesions and invasive cancer.[4] HPV infection is a cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer.[5] However, most infections with these types do not cause disease.

I can assure you all that having cancer of the cervix is not fun and will happen to young women. The youngest women I knew was not yet 20, I was 30.

There are some groups that would like to prevent the vaccine from being used, lest it lead the girls to promiscuity....what a load of horse manure. My 20+ cm scar will tell you so.

So if you have daughters and they are in the age group to be vaccinated, and you might want them not to get cancer, and you might want them to have children, get them vaccinated.

Or are you going to stop vaccinations against tuberculosis, measels, polio, whooping cough, or if you like to travel malaria....?

[Drew]

Or are you going to stop vaccinations against tuberculosis, measels, polio, whooping cough, or if you like to travel malaria....?

Oh now you've bloody done it.

A hoard of fuckwits will be along shortly to uncover the conspiracy that is vaccination now!

[unstuck]

My kids are all adults now so they can decide for themselves what is the best way to go for themselves.
I was in no way arguing for or against vaccination. Just making a statement based on what I had heard.