CDC: More teens need to get HPV vaccine

[LuckyTheDog]

HPV vaccination rates are low and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is not happy about it. In a recent report, the government agency expresses concern that doctors aren’t doing their job to inform patients. HPV, or the human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted disease. The CDC says it is so common that almost all sexually active men and women get it in their lifetime. HPV leads to cervical cancer, as well as other cancers like anal, penile, and throat cancer.

"Today I wish I had good news, but what I need to report is a small increase in vaccination," said Anne Schuchat, director of of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, according to UPI. "Our system is clearly missing many opportunities. It is a relief that we did not continue to have flatlining in HPV vaccines."

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[DirkGently]

1. KNR. n/t

[Marrah_G]

2. PLEASE get your daughters vaccinated

They will thank you for it later in life.

[bermudat]

3. Sons need to be vaccinated also.

Where do you think daughters get the HPV virus?

[Marrah_G]

4. Thank you- I didn't know there was a vaccine for males :)

[Brickbat]

5. It's for both males and females, and they need to get it.

K&R

[SidDithers]

6. DU rec...

All young people should get this vaccine before they become sexually active.

Don't listen to anti-vax asshats like Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr.

Sid

[jeff47]

7. But we need the threat of cancer 30 years from now

to keep our daughters from turning into sluts!!! Sluts, I tell you!!

I often wonder why the evangelicals love their book more than their children.

[RiffRandell]

8. I read this last week and it's bad news.

My husband is an oral cancer survivor...the treatment is horrible...it almost kills you. Get your children vaccinated!!!!! Please!!!!!!

We don't know if HPV caused it as they didn't test the tumor back then, which was caught in the lymph node and my Paps were always normal. He was only 39 when diagnosed; he did smoke but lightly.

Our son got the vaccination and our daughter will when she's the right age; she's too young now.

Here is a great site that helped us and is very informative; the link is about the HPV connection to oral cancer:

http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/hpv/hpv-oral-cancer-facts.php

[RiffRandell]

9. Kick. nt

[RiffRandell]

10. Kick....this is really important, as Ebola.

Get your kids vaccinated!