In 2007, Virginia passed a law that girls receive the vaccine against the human papillomavirus before entering the sixth grade. Virginia was the first state in the United States to mandate that girls receive the vaccine against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the U.S. Recently, twenty other states and District of Columbia have laws that require HPV vaccination for school entry, provide funding to cover the costs of the vaccines for the low-income families, or support public education about the human papillomavirus and the vaccines against HPV (NCSL).
HPV infection in the U.S. is widespread. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 79 million Americans are recently infected …show more content…
One of the biggest issues that is mentioned about this vaccine is if this should be mandated for only girls or for both girls and boys, since HPV infection is known to be much more serious in females. In opposed to the bill that requires the HPV vaccine for girls entering sixth grade, Delegate Patrick Hope (D-Arlington) sponsored the bill, HB1614, that would delete the words “for females” from a statute to make it mandates for “all children” in 2013. Hope believed that the bill would expand the mandate to boys, which also would lead expanding insurance coverage of HPV vaccination to all children if the bill had passed. However, this bill is failed to pass in the Virginia General Assembly, according to The …show more content…
In Pediatrics, the article “Reasons for Not Vaccinating Adolescents” reports about a National Immunization Survey of Teens, 2008-2010. The study shows the increasing number of people who do not vaccinate their children because of the safety concern and side effects. In 2008, only 4.5% of people answered for safety concern/side effects for the reasons not vaccinating, but it increased up to 7.7% in 2009 and 16.4% in 2010. Despite the concerns, CBS New informed that 23 million doses were given in June 2006, and only 6% were serious and 32 deaths were reported out of 12,424 cases of adverse events by that date. The important fact is that the cause of death is not clear, meaning that the vaccine may not the reason of the deaths. According to the CDC, Side effects for the HPV vaccines are pain, redness, swelling at the injection site, fever, headache, nausea, and muscle or joint pain, which can occur in any other vaccines or
HPV infection in the U.S. is widespread. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 79 million Americans are recently infected …show more content…
One of the biggest issues that is mentioned about this vaccine is if this should be mandated for only girls or for both girls and boys, since HPV infection is known to be much more serious in females. In opposed to the bill that requires the HPV vaccine for girls entering sixth grade, Delegate Patrick Hope (D-Arlington) sponsored the bill, HB1614, that would delete the words “for females” from a statute to make it mandates for “all children” in 2013. Hope believed that the bill would expand the mandate to boys, which also would lead expanding insurance coverage of HPV vaccination to all children if the bill had passed. However, this bill is failed to pass in the Virginia General Assembly, according to The …show more content…
In Pediatrics, the article “Reasons for Not Vaccinating Adolescents” reports about a National Immunization Survey of Teens, 2008-2010. The study shows the increasing number of people who do not vaccinate their children because of the safety concern and side effects. In 2008, only 4.5% of people answered for safety concern/side effects for the reasons not vaccinating, but it increased up to 7.7% in 2009 and 16.4% in 2010. Despite the concerns, CBS New informed that 23 million doses were given in June 2006, and only 6% were serious and 32 deaths were reported out of 12,424 cases of adverse events by that date. The important fact is that the cause of death is not clear, meaning that the vaccine may not the reason of the deaths. According to the CDC, Side effects for the HPV vaccines are pain, redness, swelling at the injection site, fever, headache, nausea, and muscle or joint pain, which can occur in any other vaccines or