Anti-HPV vaccine groups are being accused of emotional terrorism, whose campaign of disinformation could cost lives.
That’s the message from the head of the HSE and health professionals, who are urging parents of girls to vaccinate their daughters.
The take-up of the HPV vaccine has fallen from 90 to just 50 percent in some areas recently, but is showing some signs of stabilisation.
Grainne Flannelly is Clinical Director of the Cervical Check programme and a Consultant Gynaecologist.
She says it can be hard for parents of 12 year old girls to think of their daughter aged 25 when she might develop cervical cancer.
