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I was more interested in addressing the issue of vaccinating people against a "life style" disease. The premise is that this would be a safe, effective vaccine. As far as I know, some recent vaccines such as the Hib vaccine have very few mild effects and no major effects. For the purpose of discussion, I suggested a vaccine with rare side effects ranging from serious illness to permanent disability to death. Some vaccines do have these rare side effects.
So, my question is, given a very minimal but very real risk of getting vaccinated for a disease that can reasonably be avoided, who should get vaccinated? Although the disease can be reasonably avoided, clearly many people fail to take proper precautions. It's too late to edit the poll, but I should have mentioned the possibility of having women of child bearing age vaccinated to protect potential offspring from HIV exposure in utero.
The vaccine against HPV also involves a life style disease. the difference is that it doesn't protect against all the viruses that cause cervical cancer and that cervical cancer can be cured.
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