Failure to vaccinate girls against HPV is a death sentence for some

If you are a parent of one of the 30,000 girls who will be offered the vaccine in September, you are right to inform yourself, but do so from trusted scientific sources, writes Alison O’Connor.

Failure to vaccinate girls against HPV is a death sentence for some

FINE Gael TD, Kate O’Connell, has a knack for painting word pictures. Remember her verbal assault, during the recent Fine Gael leadership contest, on the Leo Varadkar-supporting “choir boys”?

Reading a transcript from the joint Oireachtas Committee on Health — during a discussion on the controversial human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine — she painted another vivid picture.

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