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Published online 17 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070514-15

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Don't rush your vaccines

The ethical debate about a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease has been premature, says Apoorva Mandavilli; we don't even know how well it works.

Apoorva Mandavilli

Here's a good lesson: before you start pushing for a controversial vaccine to be made compulsory, best wait for the research — and I mean all the research — to come up with results.

For more than a year, we've been hearing that there is a vaccine that is 100% safe and effective in protecting young girls and women from the deadly viruses that cause cervical cancer.

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