HPV Vaccine: Mandatory?

[ZTAngel]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I don't know much about this, except that it is supposed to prevent HPV and cervical cancer. One of my sisters that works in a pharmacy said that this vaccine isn't good because it's actually injecting HPV into your body (like the flu vaccine) and if you don't have the virus in your body, then you'll most likely get HPV anyways... or something like that.

I imagine that it's like any other vaccination where you are given a weakened or inactive organisms. The chance of getting an infection from the vaccine is rare just as though you were being given an MMR or tetanus vaccination which most of us received when we were infants.