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Gardasil, Iraqi Superbugs & Radiation

By Terry J. Allen

In These Times started running “Health & Science” in January 2006. Below are three updates. Gag me with a campaign Merck’s force-it-down-consumers’-throats-campaign for Gardasil proved a powerful emetic. The new vaccine protects against two of the HPV strains that cause 70 percent of cervical cancers, but consumers gagged on making vaccination mandatory for all pre-teen girls. Exposure of short drug trials… return to article

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    The issue should first be to get insurance to pay for this very important vaccine (Gardasil).

    Mandating it as a public health measure is also a good idea.

    United States Posted by wolf on Apr 5, 2007 at 6:19 PM

    “Mandating” anything is a very bad idea.

    United States Posted by blondemike on Apr 6, 2007 at 5:00 PM

    Suberbugs: this is another thing we saw on the horizon and failed to deal with until it exploded onto the scene as a big problem.

    And the beat goes on…

    United States Posted by yogione on Apr 8, 2007 at 9:01 PM
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