November 2, 2011 | In: Articles
Children should also have HPV vaccine
Health officials agree with the government children should also have HPV vaccine
Children should also have HPV vaccine
Federal Advisory Panel recommended last week that the boys and girls are violently contested HPV vaccine, which in recent years has been used to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts.
The recommendation came last Tuesday, after the Advisory Committee on Immunization has voted unanimously to submit a proposal for the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although the vaccine was recommended mostly girls, are now experts in the growing boys, says the vaccine can protect against other types of cancer and help prevent the spread of human papillomavirus for girls .
The Committee recommends that all children, aged between 11 and 12, may be vaccinated.
Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of the Division of Public Health of Delaware, agrees with the recommendation.
“It prevents cancer of the rectum, it can prevnt HPV infection and can prevent genital warts, and preventing infection in boys, they will not transfer the girls,” she said.
While the vaccine for adolescents was considered controversial, Rattay said it is better to reach people before they become sexually active.
“When exposed to the virus, there is no need to get the vaccine,” she said. “You can not prevent it.”
However, Rattay said, men and women who have not received all three doses and are sexually active should still be vaccinated before the age of 26.
Two brands are available vaccines – Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) and Gardasil (Merck). The two are supposed to protect women against HPV types that cause most cervical cancers, but Gardasil was shown to protect against genital warts and anal cancer, vaginal and vulvar cancer. Gardasil has only been tested for children.
The vaccine was approved for use in boys since 2009, but it is right now highly recommended.
According to Rattay, over 60 percent of girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who received the vaccine in Delaware in 2010 received one or more doses, while 40 percent received three or more. Nationally, only one third of American girls in the same age group received the vaccine.
The statistics were not available for the boys again, she said.
Renee Grob, chairman of pediatrics for the Bayhealth Medical Center, said while his office points out that people usually get HPV vaccine 14-year-old, he agrees it is important that children be vaccinated 11.
“One of the controversies is that by offering the vaccine, we are promoting sexual activity and adolescent sexual,” he said. “To me it makes no sense. S ‘there was a vaccine against herpes and HIV, a disease that lasts for ever better known, I wonder if people feel the same way.
“This is just one step in an effort to save our community of people. I do not think that promotes out and have sex. I think that protects life. Protects against a terrible disease.”
Grob, said last week 75 to 90 percent of parents of men is recommended that the vaccine received.
The representative Bethany Hall-Long (D-Middletown), a professor of nursing at the University of Delaware, said that although the state currently has no HPV vaccine, which could become a possibility in the future.
“This HPV vaccine has yet been done, and probably because of the cost of parents ‘questions’ and concerns,” he said. “I suspect that, over time, such as trade unions to participate, and more research is done, may be required.”
from http://www.newstonews.com/2011/11/01/state-health-officials-agree-boys-should-get-hpv-vaccine-too/
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