Merck Wins U.S. Approval for Gardasil Vaccine in Boys

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By Shannon Pettypiece

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Merck & Co.’s Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer in women, won U.S. regulatory approval for preventing genital warts in boys.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the vaccine for use in males ages 9 to 26, Merck said today in a statement.

Gardasil protects against a sexually transmitted infection called human papillomavirus, or HPV, that can lead to cervical cancer in women and genital warts and cancer of the penis and anus in men. Gardasil, approved for females ages 9 to 26, is given mostly to school-age girls as a U.S.-recommended routine vaccination. Expanding the shot’s use could revive sales, which declined 5 percent last year, analysts have said.

“This is an important milestone, because the use of Gardasil can now help protect boys and girls and young men and women from certain diseases caused by this common virus,” said Richard Haupt, executive director of Merck Research Laboratories, in the company’s statement.

Approval in boys could add as much as $200 million and $300 million in annual sales, said Leerink Swann & Co. analyst Seamus Fernandez in a research report last month. Gardasil generated revenue of $1.4 billion last year.

Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, fell 6 cents, or less than 1 percent, to $33.24 at 1:26 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

Merck Wins U.S. Approval for Gardasil Vaccine in Boys (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

[EarlyBird]

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I hope the fools get all the shots going. I have no pity for fools.

[odie1kanobe]

Another route down the road of you have to be vaccinated against everything so drug comapnies can make profits to lobby for new drugs to be approved to vaccinate against more things.

[hellhathno]

This is the bankers and the NWO up to things again. Drug up the working man, *pretend* it's a vacine, but don't mention what that vacine can do to the brain and the thinking process. COME ON people don't fall for this crap, don't let them treat you like fools with their false prophecies and the promises of vacines. They are ANYTHING but. Pray, and pray f!cking hard that we can take down these sob's.

[Asi-Irish]

I understand that this vaccine doesn't prevent the transmission of the virus, but simply suppresses some of the symptoms. Anyone know if this is true?

[theghost]

I understand that this vaccine doesn't prevent the transmission of the virus, but simply suppresses some of the symptoms. Anyone know if this is true?

It wouldn't be of much use if all it does is suppress symptoms

[cactusflower]

Good personal hygiene and circumsion are quite effective.

[USER1234]

Good personal hygiene and circumsion are quite effective.

I'll take the drug and keep good personal hygiene, as nobody is going anywhere near my penis with a sharp knife!!!!