kalikshama
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Scaremongering to promote the Gardasil vaccine http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2009/04/bad-news-you-can-get-hpv-from-oral-sex.html Fortunately, the Gardasil vaccine appears to have great promise in preventing cervical cancer, and there is reason to believe that it could be effective in preventing oral cancers caused by HPV. Let us hope that is the case. Otherwise, we could be facing the grim prospect of an epidemic of cancer caused by oral sex, and spread by kissing. Gardasil vaccine is a flop for good reasons ...In the US, infection with HPV is very common, and it is estimated that about 20 million Americans have an HPV infection at any given time. In fact, HPV is so common that most sexually active people will get it at some time in their lives. The important thing to know about HPV is that in almost all cases, it clears up on its own without any adverse health effects within two years in most healthy people.... According to the CDC's report on HPV to Congress in 2004: "Cervical cancer is an uncommon consequence of HPV infection in women, especially if they are screened for cancer regularly with pap tests and have appropriate follow-up of abnormalities. The purpose of screening with the pap test is to detect cervical abnormalities that can be treated, thereby preventing progression to invasive cervical cancer, and also to detect invasive cervical cancer at a very early stage. If detected early and managed promptly, survival rates for cervical cancer are over 90 percent."
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