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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
Drinking diet coke can cause cancer, leading a generally unhealthy lifestyle can cause cancer, walking down the road can cause cancer, everything causes cancer these days, aside from the obvious ones like smoking. Cancer is an uncontrolled division of cells, it can be triggered by any mutagen that moves repressor genes further away from oncogenes. We live in a stew of mutation-causing crap, what more is to be expected? However, mutation is also nature's way of helping the evolutionary process along. The idea of exposing one's self to potentially unneccessary vaccinations is merely a stop-gap measure. Some illnesses (read mutations) even serve a positive purpose (such as people afflicted with sickle-cell anemia having a natural protection from maleria). Not saying it's nice that people die from stuff like that, but the more we mess with mother nature, the more nasty ways she finds to mess back.
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Yes. Lots of things cause cancers, that's very true however 95% of cervical cancer is caused by a specific thing;
HPV. That is what the vaccine protects you from contracting. It's very sad to read about the girl who died after having the vaccine; however so far, more than 1.4million doses have been given out in the UK alone, and there has been one death. That's pretty good odds in my book - versus the numbers of girls who will get sick; need on going treatments; chemo; hysterectomies etc or who could even die. I just googed it and in 2007 alone there were 941 deaths from cervical cancer in the UK.
That's more scary. I'm not a parent and I appreciate it would be a tough decision to go ahead and make but surely it's entirely best to go ahead with the vaccine.