Cancer vaccine to be mandatory in Texas for sixth grade girls: NewsTarget.com

Controversy about Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines for young girls has exploded since Scottish health authorities announced in the summer that they were considering making them mandatory for 9-year-old girls. While that plan was upended by parental concerns, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas recently mandated the shots for girls as young as 11 or 12.

By September 2008 all girls entering the sixth grade in Texas will be required to be vaccinated with shots of Gardasil, the only HPV vaccine currently available, provided by drug-maker Merck. Merck itself has been lobbying to make the vaccines mandatory across the country after the government approved Gardasil in June of last year. A government advisory panel recommended that all girls aged 11 or 12 get the shot before they become sexually active, and 18 states are currently considering making the shots mandatory, but Texas is the first state to actually require the vaccines.

"This mandatory vaccination policy is a huge win for Merck, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, but it's an enormous loss for the health of young girls and health freedom in general," explained Mike Adams, author of "Natural Health Solutions." "These pro-vaccine pushes are such obvious profiteering ploys by Big Pharma, that I'm amazed anyone still buys into it."

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