Will You Delay Gardasil For Your Young Daughters?

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Canada B.C. health minister George Abbott announced Monday (May 5) that girls entering Grades 6 and 9 will be offered the controversial vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine prevents infection of HPV types 16 and 18, which cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases. Similar programs are already underway in several other provinces, including Quebec, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.

Many American moms are apparently ignoring Merck & Co's. aggressive efforts to convince them that their young daughters must be given the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. A new study has found that only half of American mothers intend to have their teenaged daughters vaccinated against HPV if the girls are under the age of 13, despite government guidelines that suggest the opposite.

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	ZiiValue (chance)	MyValue (0% to 100% chance)	()	Possible Outcomes
	14%			Take the vaccine asap
	27%			Delay the vaccine
	35%			Will never take vaccine
	23%			Let daughters decide

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