Re: [UUPoly-L] more on gardasil Great video!

[Desmond Ravenstone <desmondravenstone@yahoo.com>]

--- Carrie Vine <cvinex5@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>       Normally I am pretty quiet on this group, but
> thought I would comment on this. I recently had a
> cervical cancer scare. I have the HPV virus. After
> much research I have learned that over 80% of
> sexually active women have HPV. It is actually
> considered "normal" to have it. I think it is
> important to tell potential partners, but the
> vaccine has made a much bigger deal out of the HPV
> virus then necessary in my opinion. Most women have
> no idea they have it, and even more men have no
> idea. In fact there is not even a test for men to
> see if they have it. The vaccine does not even come 
> close to protecting against all strains and it
> doesn't even protect against all the strains that
> can cause cancer. 
>    
>   The following link is a really good video that
> explains a lot. To me it is scary. 
>
http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/vaccines_hpv_great_hoax_exposed.htm

Carrie:

I appreciate your desire that people get a balanced
view on this issue, but that also means being
skeptical of the skeptics.

The fellow in this video, Mike Adams, has been harshly
criticized by many people.  He has no scientific or
medical training, distorts information at minimum, and
has been accused of outright fabrication at worst. 
Having read some of the scientific materials on HPV
and Gardasil, I can poke a great big hole in one of
his statements.

He says that most women who get HPV will not get
cancer.  That's because HPV is in fact a family of
various DNA-based viral strains, some of which have
been shown to cause cervical cancer (and considered
strong candidates for causing some cancers in men, as
well).

Exposure to HPV may be "normal" -- so is exposure to
varicella zoster, the virus that causes chicken pox. 
And while chicken pox may be relatively mild, its
re-emergence as shingles, ZSH and postherpetic
neuralgia is not (I know from personal experience, as
well as knowing others with such conditions).  And
while getting chicken pox does not guarantee getting
any of the later conditions, if vaccinating against
the virus can eliminate or even greatly reduce their
incidence with minimal side effects, then its worth
giving up the "normal" occurrence of chicken pox.

>From all that I've read about Gardasil, it looks like
there's a similar balance of risk and benefit -- that
it can greatly reduce the incidence of those strains
of HPV linked to cancer with mininal negative effects.
 As with any new vaccine or medical treatment, it's
best to proceed carefully and keep a close eye on
possible long-term effects.  But I would not go so far
as to denounce Gardasil as a "fraud" based on one
questionable blogger's video.


Desmond Ravenstone 

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