Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

Post by loeg » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 11:11 PM UTC

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It's not "recommended" but your PCP can prescribe it off-label if you ask -- just ask.

I'm sorry, but you sound like the people who try to get me take ivermectine for Covid. "just get it off label" or "tell the doctor you just got back from pauea new guinea and saw worms in your stool." I know you are very well intentioned, but American's actually have very good doctors.

Post by OrvalWintermute » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 11:12 PM UTC

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1) If your wife was having a high risk pregnancy and couldn't get vaccinated, she really shouldn't have been working on the front lines during Covid, anyway. 2) Take a look in the mirror and try blaming the people who have made "getting a vaccine" a culture war political statement rather than something routine and uncontroversial. If vaccines were uncontroversial, medical exemptions from them would also be rare and u…

Post by pyuser583 » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 11:16 PM UTC

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I've been through this with medical providers, and they say it's not recommended for me. I don't take medical advice from internet strangers, especially when it contradicts my doctors'. I'm not particularly interested in discussing the how's and why's. My doctor said he doesn't recommend I get it, so I don't.

In most countries it's recommended for everyone. It just isn't in the US because they don't want to pay for it.

Post by Spivak » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 11:25 PM UTC

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Of course, I for sure held off on having casual unprotected sex with multiple partners as a teenager because I was worried about contracting HPV, but thanks to Gardasil my slut era was legendary and enduring.

Teenagers are notorious for making decisions based on consequences that are decades away from manifesting.

Post by chris_wot » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 11:30 PM UTC

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Maybe we’re seeing selection pressure against those prone to addictive cycles of social-media influenced misinformation? Like, anti-vaxers died at higher rates in Covid [1]. This will continue across disease outbreaks, particularly ones for which we have near-comprehensive vaccines like measles. And given antivax sensibility is heritable (through parenting, not genes), one would expect this to stabilize the populatio…

very few people are against vaccines per se, they are just against *unsafe* vaccines. "anti-vax" is a term used to dismiss dissident without having to deal with their arguments i.e an ad hominem. As an analogy, if I object to high levels of mercury in fish, am I anti-fish? or anti-poisonous-fish ?