I respect your opinions on these things (and others). Having just been forced to undergo these immunizations by Immigration, I'm interested in your reasons for this viewpoint. Thanks.
Chicken pox is annoying, but non-fatal, so I'm not even going to entertain any argument that use of force with regard to this could be valid. As to HPV, from WHO documents -
"Of the 2 billion people who have been infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), more than 350 million have chronic (lifelong) infections. These chronically infected persons are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, diseases that kill about one million persons each year." If there are larger causes of death attributable to HPV, WHO does not name them. A typical position paper talks about the greatest causes / sources / outcomes.
Time for a little math - of the entire population of HPV infected globally (2 billion), 350 million are chronic (17.5%).
Look at the second sentence. One million at risk from cirrhosis and liver cancer; BUT, HPV is NOT the sole cause of these diseases. So AT MOST, we have a .05% annual mortality rate attributed to HPV from these two inputs.
Furthermore, there's this - "Hepatitis B virus is transmitted by contact with blood or body fluids of an infected person.
The main ways of getting infected with HBV are:
* Perinatal (from mother to baby at the birth)
* Child-to-child transmission
* Unsafe injections and transfusions
* Sexual contact
Worldwide, most infections occur from infected mother to child, from child to child contact in household settings, and from reuse of unsterilized needles and syringes. In many developing countries, almost all children become infected with the virus. (Child-to-child contact seems to be a nice way of saying "playing with poop.")
In many industrialized countries (e.g. Western Europe and
North America), the pattern of transmission is different. In these countries, mother-to-infant and child-to-child transmission accounted for up to one third of chronic infections before childhood hepatitis B vaccination programmes were implemented. However,
the majority of infections in these countries are acquired during young adulthood by sexual activity, and injecting drug use.
It is a communicable disease NOT spread by casual contact.