I hope more people get this vaccine and if it only takes 2 doses instead of 3 all the better for compliance.
http://www.local10.com/health/preteens-need-only-two-rounds-of-hpv-vaccine-cdc-says
The 2-dose protocol is only for children under the age of 15.
madison85…that is true but going forward this is great news. if everyone starting now under 15 gets vaccinated in the next 30-40 years hpv related illness may very well become like polio. ( I do realize 100% compliance is a bit of a fantasy)
Check the side effects for the vaccine. Be fully informed prior to getting your kids/grandkids vaccinated.
Head and neck cancers as well as cervical cancers are also prevented by this vaccine.
Yes be fully informed about this incredibly safe vaccine and then go protect your kids, grandkids, and their partners against cancer and other related issues.
HPV incidence and cervical abnormalities have dropped significantly since the advent of the HPV vaccine. This is amazing news-- we can get rid of a cancer with a vaccine. Astounding.
I think the health authorities dropped the ball a little on this one.
I have several coworkers whose kids got three doses of the vaccine as young adolescents. These parents are now terrified that the third shot did some kind of harm to their children. The announcement didn’t specify that this is not the case, and I think it should have.
Why in the world would you think the third shot did harm? That didn’t even occur to me when I saw that the schedule had changed.
It didn’t occur to me, either, but it occurred separately to three of my colleagues who have fully vaccinated teenage children.
They’re scared, and there’s nothing in the official announcement to indicate that they need not be.
Scary would be getting hpv…followed by a dreaded disease because you never got the vaccine for something completely preventable in 2016
Before automatically dismissing my comment about being fully informed I will again just suggest you become fully informed. I am by no means anti vaccine. But there have been some very real issues. I purposefully did not list them or mention autoimmune disorders or the lawsuits here and in Japan.
Inform and then decide. But get informed. I think that’s a proper heads up.
Agreed.
But I think that someone should have considered the concerns of parents who would see the announcement and think, “Oh my God, my kid got an overdose!” Those parents are now bothering their children’s doctors to find out whether their children have come to any harm, and both this drain on the pediatricians’ time and the parents’ anxiety were unnecessary.
I wasn’t dismissing anything. I said to go be informed, did I not?
Well, my loved one is in her 20s and hopefully has had 2 of her 3 shots. I’m sure she’d be thrilled if she learns she doesn’t need the 3rd injection. She started gettin the shots as a teen but never completed the series. Now there is a new formulation that is supposed to protect vs more strains. I will send her a text to remind her to ask her MD about injection status.
If those people read the information they would see that the new information is presented as “two doses confer immunity–yay!”. That’s pretty much it and self-explanatory for most people. In the pediatrics and public health press it’s totally presented as a positive development. I have not encountered anyone who is freaking out about an ‘extra’ dose. Strange.