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Old 02-07-2007, 11:16 PM
SmartBlondeGPhB SmartBlondeGPhB is offline
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Originally Posted by kddani View Post
HPV is scary, particularly for women who don't get to the gyno on a regular basis. There are no symptoms (well, aside from the strains that cause genital warts) and its not really detected until there's been a change in your cells that is seen on the pap and follow up testing. HPV itself isn't necessarily a huge deal, but that it can lead to much bigger issues (i.e. cervical cancer) its not something to mess around with.
I stongly agree with this statement and if I had kids, I wouldn't even think twice about getting them vaccinated.
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