Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
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We have a vaccine that prevents cancer! This used to be the dream. Of course, the primary cancer HPV causes only affects women, so, who cares? I hate it here
Disclaimer: I am aware that men are affected too, but HPV causes more cervical cancer than the cancers it causes that affect men.
Protect yourself and your loved ones. Not everyone needs to be here anyway. If people don’t want it, fine, that’s their choice but don’t interfere with those of us who are just trying to live🙄
Yeah but nobodies talking about ole common sense Denmark are they? Controversy gets the online engagement that helps billionaires. So checkmate Denmark.
All I do all day is take care of people who now have horrifying throat & neck cancer because of that virus. Here I was thinking that the vaccine was gonna make it so that there were no more people with throat & neck cancer. But the United States government wants ppl to have throat & neck cancer.
Freedom means giving citizens the facts and access to all medical care—preventative through emergent—and letting each individual determine what they will do.
If you had told me 30 years ago that we'd have an anti-cancer vaccine and that half of the country was fighting against it, I'd have thought you were nuts. But here we are.
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Things must be getting close in FL-1. Slick Jimmy has resorted to calling Valimont a radical liberal. That riles up the MAGA crowd. Unfortunately for him, only about 20% in this district will bother to vote. Hope the right ones vote her in. I'm tired of Trump running my district.
The people who claimed anyone getting the Covid mRNA vaccine would be dead in six months — can clearly see we’re all still alive. And yet, they’re still acting as stupidly now that they’re in charge. I can’t make sense of this situation.
Why do people like RFK have to be such a weird mix of right and wrong. Yes three corporations own most of your food supply and most of what's in it is really bad for you, but vaccines save countless lives and do no more or less than help boost immunity towards ______ virus. Let's be rational here.
The burden of making sure it was used was also unfairly shuffled to an afab crowd when, most times, afab people aren't (usually) the carriers. The use was also harmed by the conservative Christian ideology of "Protect kids, they'll have sex earlier and earlier." Like bruh. Tf is that logic.
Someone in my family was treated for head and neck cancer, caused by HPV. For four months he was unable to speak, eat, or taste, and was in constant pain. Many people do not regain the ability to swallow. The vaccine is a godsend. Vaccinate your kids.
I’m a victim of one of those 6 cancers and went through 5 years of treatment and continue to deal with the after effects of treatment and fear of recurrent. Protect your children.
Made since to me when it came out. With cancer taking so many family members over time I was like yeah if I can help my daughter with NOT getting some cancers we are doing it! She was fine with the 2 shots! They were not available for my son at the time.
Before HPV vaccine was widely used, during my work for hospice I've stood at deathbeds of many women who died of cervical cancer. The youngest was 19. These women died untimely and left grieving spouses, parents and children. HPV vaccine prevents these tragedies.
Yeah if you fall in the normal ages and they have it stocked up then a pharmacist can do it. Pharmacy near me wouldn’t give it to me because I was “too old.”
I'm glad to hear this. In 2006 Gardisil had to be administered before girls were sexually active. The window was short and it wasn't like many teen girls felt comfortable announcing when they were ready.
Yup. I just asked my Dr because we had just gotten my son vaccinated. Dr explained that insurance might not cover it but he was happy to give it to me. So it was just a matter of money. Insurance did pay some of it though!
Men and woman up to age 45.
What's wild to me is that there is an age cap. There are swingers older than 45. Just because someone is older doesn't mean they have come in contact with all the strains it helps protect against.
When the vaccine first came out I remember encouraging my friends who had sons that they should get it. And I can't even begin to tell you how many said they thought being protected would make kids more promiscuous
I had that same discussion. It’s really hard for a great number of parents to realize that your children will one day grow up to be adults and be fully sexual beings.
maybe you worthless hacks shouldn't have spent so time normalizing Trump since 2016, congratulations on helping to bring this on all of us with children and grandchildren, hope you're all having "fun" covering this instead of a boring, competent government that doesn't purposely try to kill people.
I’ve just had a radical hysterectomy including half my vaginal walls and all my abdominal lymph’s because of HPV cancer. It has been an excruciating recovery. Had it not been luckily detected when it was, I’d be looking at death. My daughter had her vaccines to HPV at 13 thank god. Take the vaccine.
My heart goes out to you. I went through a lot for 5 years trying to get rid of severe dysplasia. It’s so unfair what happens to women sometimes. I’m glad you’re still with us and I truly hope you find peace in your recovery.
🚨 Trump has initiated American Genocide using several ways:
* Starvation
* Measles
* Bird Flu
* Healthcare taken away
* Multiple Wars threatened.
* Bankrupting us
🚨This is American genocide Not Governance!
Thy r killing us purpose!
Sadistic pleasure watching suffering of others!
Fight Back!
Yeah that's part of the problem. People moralize issues around STDs. Doesn't fit in their perfect worldview. Of course their daughter be chaste, then will marry a perfect man and have a "perfect life"
Junior, with the brain worm should be held responsible and accountable for any deaths that take place. Rather than encouraging people to get benefit from a vaccine, he encourages them to use products without any data to support their efficacy. What a clown.
This is in no way acceptable. RFK needs to be prosecuted for violating our constitutional rights.
This administration is a clown show. We need better procedures for approving cabinet nominees. HHS shouldn’t be influenced by the executive branch, ever.
"Anti-vaccine activist, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., (place more lives at risk due to their unmitigated ignorance) have helped dampen its usage."
TBF, some of us may prefer the cancer exit over however-many-years it takes to fix this nightmare. Not everyone is young enough to be able to re-earn 35 years of SSA contributions since Rethuglikkklans are using our taxes to pay for felon-rapist-traitor-president's golf excursions.
Fuck Robert F Kennedy jr- he’s a delusional piece of shit conspiracy theorist. He’s also a murderer - I likes to see kids die from not being vaccinated! May he rot in hell, soon!
My sister died of cervical cancer due to
Drs telling older women you don't have to keep getting your PAP test. She stopped gettomg test and 3 years later she was dead. My granddaughters 12 and 14 have both had this vaccine shot so they don't get this type of cancer. Fuck RFK Jr. Get PAP yearly!
Has anyone checked that Robert Kennedy Jr knows there's a difference between MEASLES (which is deadly) and RUBELLA (commonly called "German measles"), which kids of his generation DID commonly get, and which is usually harmless except to unborn babies?
My cousin has been fighting HPV anal cancer for seven years now. Three of her grandchildren are too young for the vaccine and their mother is livid. She's so afraid it will be gone before they can get it.
Speaking of HPV.
In the summer of 1994, my wife came in after work with a worried look. She told me her test showed she had HPV.
Considering I don't have it or have never had it I pretty much figured my wife was cheating on me.
I was right. 3 months later came the divorce papers.
I never got to say
It should be stressed more explicitly that the HPV-vaccine also prevents a number of cancers in men, incl. straight white men. Perhaps that helps to promote it.
How can you extort people by denying their claims and making them pay out of pocket for cancer treatment if they get a vaccine against cancer huh? Nobody thinking of the poor pharmaceutical reps and insurance CEO's. Have some compassion they lost one CEO just last year.
I made no assumption, but I certainly am white. Would it be cool for ME to use the N word if I thought somebody was really a bad person? Just to make it clear how bad that person is?
The left is restricting words while magas are sentencing people to death, dismantling scientific departments, weakening the military, outlawing vaccines, and emptying all the money out of social security and medicaid
My son is a childhood cancer survivor and there are parents in that support group who are antivax, including the HPV vaccine. It boggles the mind that they would not prevent their child from getting another cancer if possible.
My 10 year old son was vaccinated last week. Standard vaccine in Spain for ALL children. When the nurse explained what HPV was he rolled up his sleeve and accepted the vaccine, even though he's scared of needles. Even a 10 year can understand why vaccines are important.
He has absolutely no medical background, and probably paid someone to take the bar exam for him. He’s also very busy promoting the eating of fast food..
yeah, "date shows" means that in fact it prevents cancer, period, but these are NPR hacks who have been normalizing Trump and his moronic fascist minions for years now.
A DOCTOR told my mom that it hurts more ppl than it helps and something about ppl becoming paraplegic from it? So I never got one and was told I wasn’t allowed when I asked about it at 16. She was genuinely terrified it’d kill me and we had little access to the internet 😔
Absolutely! But ppl like my mom that trust their local medical professionals, mostly bc they live in the community they care for, aren’t going to listen to really anyone else. Especially when internet wasn’t very accessible when my gen were teens
It's the intellectually lazy/wilfully ignorant in America that are THAT STUPID! All the anti-vaxxers I know are poorly educated sheep. I didn't know anyone in my blue state that were anti-vaxxers. I moved to MT, and I am surrounded by them.
Vaccines helped to increase our average living expectation considerably. Now, as people like Trump/Thiel & Musk are concerned, this time span is too long. They therefore shorten it by erasing any progress in science, education and medicine.
In a system of enormous greed, human abysses become apparent. This applies both to political parties as well as people in the institutions. When the oath of the sitting President is worth nothing, old certainties and securities are going to disappear, unfortunately.
It used to be available only to teens and young adults, so I missed out being older. When it was changed to 45, I was 44 and I wanted to get the shots, but had to pay out of pocket because insurance refused to cover it. At least I got a cash discount, but it should have been covered.
I am a nurse who looks after people going through treatment for cervical cancer. It is a brutal treatment. The fact that the HPV vaccine will eliminate so many cases of this awful cancer, but people are blocking it, is utterly immoral.
I’ve gone from utter scorn at the idiocy that supports people like him to abject sorrow at the lives that will be affected by it. In a first world country, a girl should be able to benefit from life-saving healthcare even if she or her parents are too fucking thick to take advantage of it.
2 ⭐️'s for this post for it's use of context and somewhat fighting disinfo. Would've been better if it had said, "but *misinformed* anti-vaccine activists..."
Tell the whole truth, NPR, no one needs "balanced" reporting when it comes to saving lives. It's really not political until you allow it be.
HPV vaccine is the best vaccine out there that prevents cancer. It has reduced the incidence of cervical cancer multi fold. Only a fool would attempt to block its use.
The only reason to think that is because that’s how Latin handled 2nd declension neuter nouns. English isn’t bound by those rules as it doesn’t have declension or gender in its nouns. But if you want to apply the grammar of every language English has borrowed from to each word, knock yourself out.
Think of all the health corporations that can't survive without taking every last penny from a suffering family before they endure their loved ones passing.
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Disclaimer: I am aware that men are affected too, but HPV causes more cervical cancer than the cancers it causes that affect men.
They go around the secondary schools.
It's all free of charge. Fuck cancer!
We didn't pursue him for the consequences.
WHAT IS WRONG with these people?
This is the headline: No cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation https://publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/january/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-vaccinated-women-following-hpv-immunisation/
We vets will fight & die for this country so yall don’t have to. They know this.
After 3 decades of combat in the worst places in the world, they FEAR US!
Let’s add to that fear! COME STAND WITH US. Let’s SCARE the fuck out these piss ants.
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Gay men, you HAVE to let your doctor and dentist know. They don't assume so it goes undetected.
#RFKJr
#Cancer
NOT BOBBY’S
What's wild to me is that there is an age cap. There are swingers older than 45. Just because someone is older doesn't mean they have come in contact with all the strains it helps protect against.
My only reply was, “how the hell do you think it usually spreads??”
Ridiculous!
Biggest disappointment since Fetterman. I pulled my donations because of this exact CRAP
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-mrna-treatment-trial-rcna192702
I wish it had been around when I was younger. Instead, I suffered a lot of pain and worry (I'm ok now).
Get your boys and girls vaccinated.
* Starvation
* Measles
* Bird Flu
* Healthcare taken away
* Multiple Wars threatened.
* Bankrupting us
🚨This is American genocide Not Governance!
Thy r killing us purpose!
Sadistic pleasure watching suffering of others!
Fight Back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp9LMsI6uJ8&ab_channel=TVPromos
How does it relate to this conversation?
This administration is a clown show. We need better procedures for approving cabinet nominees. HHS shouldn’t be influenced by the executive branch, ever.
Public health should be a-political. Always.
#RFKjr #MAHA
Drs telling older women you don't have to keep getting your PAP test. She stopped gettomg test and 3 years later she was dead. My granddaughters 12 and 14 have both had this vaccine shot so they don't get this type of cancer. Fuck RFK Jr. Get PAP yearly!
Measles trucking along will make Covid look like nothing
FACT
https://open.spotify.com/track/0z25tUQgEI4cIyNZ1TgWig?si=f4GHiQaiRyeO8vBGOayqrQ
They don’t want egg prices to go down
In the summer of 1994, my wife came in after work with a worried look. She told me her test showed she had HPV.
Considering I don't have it or have never had it I pretty much figured my wife was cheating on me.
I was right. 3 months later came the divorce papers.
I never got to say
Man you gotta be smarter than that. I mean, DJ.
https://youtu.be/f3PJF0YE-x4?feature=shared
Find something else.
I can't understand why the left is losing.
Sounds like parody but it's real.
If people could be sued for knowingly making false statements that cause harm, this crap would stop.
dammit
They all deserve a seat in hell.
Tell the whole truth, NPR, no one needs "balanced" reporting when it comes to saving lives. It's really not political until you allow it be.