Teen suffers health problems after receiving HPV vaccine

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Antivac woo bullshit.

Thanks for the re-emergence of whooping cough as a pubic health issue. What other good deeds do you have in mind?

The findings suggest that Australia’s program, which has experienced little of the resistance that has stymied vaccination efforts in the United States, has been an overwhelming success, said Basil Donovan, an author of the study and a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

As part of the new research, which was published in BMJ, a British medical journal, Dr. Donovan and colleagues compared rates of HPV-related diseases in the three years before the vaccine program began and in the four years afterward. The study included data on nearly 86,000 people who visited clinics in Australia between 2004 and 2011.

The researchers found that diagnoses of genital warts among young women ages 12 to 26 plummeted 59 percent in the two years after the program began. For men in the same age group, genital warts cases dropped 39 percent. During the same period, there was also a striking decline in the rate of high-grade cervical abnormalities in teenage girls, a sign that a decline in cervical cancer cases may be on the horizon.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/hpv-vaccine-showing-successes-in-australia/