HPV vaccine

Marian
Thu, 10 May 2007 12:04:23 +0000

I thought I should revive this thread to caution everyone that if your daughter does go to get the HPV vaccine, she should mention the words “cervical cancer” frequently when requesting it.

“HPV” sounds a lot like “HBV,” which seems to be one of the ways of referring to the hepatitis B vaccine. When I took my daughter to get the HPV shot, we found it necessary to be extremely clear that we wanted HPV and not HBV, and even then some of the nurses at the county health department seemed confused. One of them agreed with me that there’s likely to be trouble because of the similar names of the vaccines.

So be careful. You don’t want your daughter to waste her time and your money getting the wrong shots.