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More than 42 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 59 are infected with genital human papillomavirus [HPV], according to the first survey to look at the prevalence of the virus in the adult population.
The report [pdf], published on Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that certain high-risk strains of the virus infected 25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women. These strains account for approximately 31,000 cases of cancer each year, other studies have shown.
Two vaccines are effective in preventing sexually transmitted HPV infection, and researchers said the new data lend urgency to the drive to have adolescents vaccinated.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/health/hpv-virus-survey-united-states.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:13PM (18 children)
If these vaccines are indeed effective, some adults could benefit from them. But adults are troublesome because they can withhold consent.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:24PM (7 children)
Indeed. [hrsa.gov]
Though that's not saying that all vaccines are bad, it's proof that there are some well-deserved trust issues between much of the public and the American medical establishment.
No, I don't need your fucking flu shot, and all you Asians at work wearing surgical masks because you heard about Swine Flu on TV are making asses of yourself.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:02AM (5 children)
The idea of vaccines was hijacked by the medical establishment to infect us with who knows what. Daily they develop new strains of cancer to infect us with, and diseases that weaken and destroy our genes.
The double-snake symbol represents the secret societies that control all medicine. Cancer (of all forms) was cured in the 60s, and none of those in establishment get cancer. Ever wonder why?
And I agree, surgical masks cannot fix what your food has been infected with, what your water has been polluted with, what your detergent does to your skin...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:44AM (3 children)
Hey! Quit hogging the good shit!
Puff puff PASS, dammit! You've had enough!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:23AM (2 children)
Call me when Clinton, Bush, Bama, etc gets cancer and dies from it after months and years of agonizing pain (I wish!).
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday April 10 2017, @03:46AM
Steve Jobs was not Elite enough?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 10 2017, @07:08PM
The U.S. medical system is the best on earth...as long as you're filthy rich. Our mistake is not being rich enough.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @07:26PM
The double-snake symbol is the symbol of . . . wait for it . . . commerce.
The single-snake symbol is the symbol of medicine. Funny you don't see this one.
Every performance optimization is a grate wait lifted from my shoulders.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:14AM
There is a very narrow window of time during which the effects must show up. If you are affected either before or after that window, no compensation for you! You get nothing, and you can't sue. The system is set up to evade paying out.
It also of course doesn't value an A+ student any more than an F student. Some kids are worth a lot more than they pay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @12:26AM (1 child)
If these vaccines are indeed effective, some adults could benefit from them.
They are effective, but not for adults over 25 because they've (typically) already been exposed.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 10 2017, @12:41AM
Or, you know, you could just get the flu (like every damn kid on the block used to) and endure temporary discomfort to strengthen your immune system. Although I was vaccinated as a kid I never had a damn flu shot in my life, and got the flu approximately every year from single-digit age until around age 25, with some rare exceptions.
There's a big difference between what people actually need and what is pushed on them for hysterical fearmongering bullshit reasons.
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Monday April 10 2017, @12:49AM (5 children)
It's my understanding that the vaccines are effective, but only before you've been exposed. If you've already got HPV, they don't cause you to get rid of it.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:27AM (4 children)
Yep vaccines work a bit like vaccines, not like cures. Thats why they are called vaccines...
Who modded this informative?
Do they also know that water is wet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:07AM (1 child)
Unlike the fact that water is wet, the fact that vaccines don't help once you're infected is far less widely known that one would wish. Therefore there are likely some readers who didn't know it, and therefore were informed by that post. Thus that post is informative, and deserves moderated as such.
(Score: 1) by Chrontius on Monday April 10 2017, @08:00PM
Actually? Many vaccines are used theraputically, though more are used prophylactically.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:20AM
Water isn't wet when frozen, vaporized, or dried into a fine water powder. Most people get this wrong. It's ok, you don't need to go into a corner and cry.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday April 15 2017, @05:45PM
Actually, this isn't true of all vaccines. Some increase the strength of the immune reaction enough to cause you to cure yourself even if you had already caught the disease. But you don't get over HPV, even with an activated immune system.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Monday April 10 2017, @02:12PM
Adults are much more likely to see themselves as not at risk if they're in a settled down relationship, while long term relationships for adolescents are measured in weeks, putting them as a much higher risk group for both contracting and spreading HPV. Adults who may have a more higher risk lifestyle (or those who might have a spouse with a higher risk lifestyle) should probably be quick to seek out the vaccine, but a big push may simply be a pretty low priority, even if they're not 100% safe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:00PM
I have actively tried to get this vaccine. But, they forbit it's use on those over 35.