From the Orlando Weekly:
No one will argue cervical cancer isn’t deadly. The disease, which killed 30 percent of the 11,000 U.S. women it affected last year, ranks as one of the nation’s top causes of death. Any doctor is glad to roll out those statistics.
For years, nothing short of abstinence and maybe luck could have prevented the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the leading causes of cervical cancer. The new magic bullet is a vaccine. Developers claim the drug is 100 percent effective in preventing four strains of the virus, and promises to prevent strains that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts.
It sounds like a wonder drug, and no one argues with the vaccine’s potential. But not everyone is sure about the speedy move by Florida lawmakers to force parents to vaccinate or file a waiver by the time their daughters turn 12.
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