Dizziness is worse than death?
A Catholic school in Bury has banned pupils from receiving the Cervical Cancer vaccination. It claims it isn’t in the position to do so; governors worry that side-effects can include dizziness. Some pupils must worry that the side-effects of cervical cancer can include death.
The decision just doesn’t make sense. It isn’t on the overt fundamentalist grounds other groups tried to stop the vaccinations; the Vatican came out for the vaccine. Their complaint seems centred solely on the grounds that pupils might faint; despite reassurances from doctors and the unavoidable fact that the vaccine can prevent a deadly disease. Do they have no sense of proportionality?
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The entire HPV vaccine is a struggle for a longer-term approach to healthcare.
- The lifetime risk for contracting HPV is at least 50% for all sexually active women and men.
- By the age of 50, at least 80% of women will have acquired sexually transmitted HPV.
- It takes about 10 to 20 years after HPV infection for a cervical cancer to develop.
Instead, the debate seems to be about short-term sideeffects, or “it’ll encourage them to have sex.”