Every decade or so, mankind become more effective in the treatment and prevention of disease. It is merely, as I am sure Darwin would put it, how the human race proves to be the fittest of the earth. We have found ways to recognize what is harmful and either eradicate the problem or control it in a way that allows us to live as comfortably as possible with it. When one is faced with the option to use medication and vaccines as a way to treat and or prevent a disease, the question is raised, "Is the cure worse than the disease?"
[...] The Gardasil vaccine is a continuous preventive method for girls, what better way to head off the cervical cancer than with such a preventative measure? Some people my not be quite sure that doctors are helping the situation by endorsing the new vaccine. The new vaccine has a very short effective lifetime of five years. And as with all vaccines there is a chance that with the introduction of the weakened virus women may actually contact the disease they are trying to prevent. [...]
[...] The virus seems to have come from nowhere and has only recently been linked to the high incidence of cervical cancer in young women. Compared to the campaigns to inform sexually active individuals about other STD's, HPV seems to be very low on the scale. One may argue that there may be a decline in HPV cases if people actually knew what it was and how to prevent it. Gardisil could be an experimental drug used on young women to further advance medical science as Merck profits. [...]
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