HPV vaccine

cangel
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:13:49 +0000

Corranged, cytopathologist here, I diagnose HPV. Part of the reason that the vaccine is not recommended for boys (yet) is that the supply is not unlimited, and the capacity of the vaccine makers to make it is finite. Men get some disease from HPV, can even get cancers, but the rate is much, much less, so it makes sense to use the limited vaccine to protect the most vulnerable. Eventually, vaccination may be recommended for everyone.

My daughter is 19, and I’ am pressuring her to get vaccinated as soon as she gets back from France, in place long enough to get the shots.

I don’t exactly follow Zoosermom’s logic for allowing opting out and privacy, re: sexual activity, I’d recommend my sexually active D to get the shots anyway, for the reasons Sunny gave. Also, HPV is highly infectious, most women certainly are infected by intercourse, but it can be spread sometimes by sexual contact that is less than full intercourse, enough said. As a physician, I don’t get the same perspective of a patient’s sexual history hearing that she is HPV positive, than I would hearing that she had had syphilis, for instance.