25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, U.S. says
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times October 10, 2008
About a quarter of the nation’s teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday."For a new vaccine, 25% is really very good,” Lance Rodewald, director of the division of immunization services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a telephone news conference releasing the data."We need to see that rate every year if we are going to meet our goal” of having 90% of teenagers vaccinated, he said.But immunologist W. Martin Kast of USC’s Keck School of Medicine said, “Twenty-five percent is not bad, but it’s not good either.” Read More
