Vaccine controversy continues - KFDA NewsChannel 10

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  • September 14, 2011










Less than half of U.S. teenage girls have received the HPV Vaccine - which prevents cervical cancer. Some doctors say it's the cost of the drug that is keeping patients from getting the vaccination. Others blame the fact that the vaccine is given in three doses...and some patients just don't follow through or want to go through the hassle of three separate visits.

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"There are rare side effects to everything we do and every procedure we do and every vaccine which is given. Overall the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines have been as safe as other vaccines which are currently available and widely distributed to our children," said Dr. Robert Kauffman, Director of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Texas Tech University.

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