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Gardasil Marketed for Males to Prevent Genital Warts (and other ways men can prevent STDs)

By Merely Me, Health Guide Monday, September 14, 2009
There may soon be a new way for boys and young men to protect themselves from one symptom of sexually transmitted disease.  Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil (the drug used to vaccinate young women against cervical cancer) may get FDA approval to also use this drug as a vaccine against genital...
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9/17/09 6:23pm

I do think, if it receives FDA approval that it is a worthwhile preventative vaccine. Though the FDA occasionally misses a hazard, they generally keep people safe, some say they go too slow, weighing the possible danger against the benefit to our population.

 

Though I'm not part of the population that could take the drug, I would if I could. The thing that sold me is helping prevent cervical cancer. I don't wish to get any disease but I especially do not want to give another person one.

Having seen some pictures of an infected person, male and female, if I could avoid genital warts, I certainly would.

 

I think the doctors and organizations who have concerns about the vaccine have a good point. Unless there are studies showing the long range effect on young men, if any, there is some risk involved. But the same goes for many vaccines. I doubt when I was receiving the Salk vaccine for polio that anyone really knew if there would be unforeseeable consequences with age. Doesn't seem to have been and polio was all but eliminated in this country.

 

 

By Merely Me, Health Guide— Last Modified: 09/20/10, First Published: 09/14/09