Cervical cancer campaign flops
Thursday 02 April 2009
The national health institute RIVM has admitted that its national campaign to get teenage girls to come forward for a vaccination against cervical cancer has flopped.
The average turnout was just 49%, compared with a target of 70%. RIVM director Roel Coutinho said scare stories on the internet were one of the reasons that girls stayed away.
The next campaign targeting 12-year-old girls will be done differently, he told the NRC.
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People better wake up and counter the next campaign too!! WHY let the government put poison in your twelve year old (check the vaccin "ingrediants")..its profit as always and doesnt make ANY sense at all!!
By Cor | April 2, 2009 9:36 PM