Mandating a Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: An Investigation into Whether Such Legislation is Constitutional and Prudent
| Autor: | Tracy Solomon Dowling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Sexually transmitted disease Michigan medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Legislation Mandatory Programs 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 01 natural sciences Genital warts Human Papillomavirus Recombinant Vaccine Quadrivalent Types 6 11 16 18 medicine Humans Papillomavirus Vaccines 0101 mathematics Child Cervical cancer Schools Obstetrics business.industry Gardasil Public health 010102 general mathematics Cancer 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine medicine.disease United States Vaccination Immunology Female 060301 applied ethics business Law medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Law & Medicine. 34:65-84 |
| ISSN: | 2375-835X 0098-8588 |
| Popis: | Merck’s recently released vaccine, Gardasil, may revolutionize cervical cancer prevention. With the rate of detected cervical cancer cases and associated deaths rising rapidly, cervical cancer is a major public health concern. Infection with the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease, is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. Gardasil protects against two specific “high risk” strains of HPV, associated with about 70% of cervical cancer cases, and blocks infection by two other strains of HPV, responsible for 90% of genital warts cases. Proponents of Gardasil believe that vaccination of women between the ages of 12 and 26 can slow the spread of cervical cancer by eradicating the two major HPV strands associated with the cancer’s development. |
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