02 February 2007

Maryland parents freak out over vaccine for girls

The HPV vaccine bill in Maryland was yanked, and for no really good reason. People claimed it would promote promiscuity (I'm sure a lot middle-schooler girls are not having sex because they're afraid of getting cervical cancer in 10 years, right); others simply knee-jerked against the idea of more vaccinations, as if these things were poisons or something.

The saddest thing is the failed effort of the medical community and local government to educate people out of the ignorance for huge public health impact vaccines have.

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