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Updated: 3:08 PM Sep 1, 2009
VA, D.C. Moving Towards Mandating HPV Vaccine
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia and the District of Columbia are moving toward requiring sixth-grade girls to get vaccinated for a potentially cancerous sexually transmitted disease.
Posted: 8:00 PM Aug 31, 2009Reporter: DENA POTTER - Associated Press Writer |
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Virginia and the District of Columbia are moving toward requiring sixth-grade girls to get vaccinated for a potentially cancerous sexually transmitted disease.
The move comes three years after federal health officials recommended that the vaccine be given to all 11 and 12-year-old girls.
About two dozen states considered requiring the vaccine, but balked because of funding woes and parents' concerns it would promote promiscuity.
Virginia and the District of Columbia allow parents to opt out of the requirement for any reason. The option makes the vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, more of a suggestion than a mandate.
Both Virginia and the District of Columbia passed laws in 2007, but pushed back the start dates to this year.
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how surprising, is it a shock to anyone the merck (the makers of the hpv vaccine) have locations in virgina and washington, dc. PARENT NEED TO READ ABOUT THE DEATHS CAUSED BY GUARDASIL ALONG WITH BLOOD CLOTS OUR DAUGHTERS LIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE KICK BACK THAT OUR STATE WILL RECEIVE FROM MERCK
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