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HPV Vaccine: Betting on a Mercky Record

By Terry J. Allen

Merck launched its new cervical cancer vaccine with a major advertising and lobbying blitz, and pushed to make the drug mandatory for all 11- to 12- year-old girls. Cervical cancer, caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), affects 10,000 women in the United States every year, and kills 3,700. The toll is far greater in the developing world, where… return to article

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    My daughters will both be vaccinated. I only wish that insurance would pay the $$$s instead of me.

    United States Posted by wolf on Feb 27, 2007 at 1:28 PM

    Hey, YOU pay, don’t palm that off on the rest of us.

    United States Posted by blondemike on Mar 1, 2007 at 1:53 PM

    You’ve reproduced yourself ? This should be a crime. How many Lone Wolfs has the Jukes family produced ?

    United States Posted by blondemike on Mar 1, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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