Reply #207: Why no similar uproar over meningitis vaccine?

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Only in recent years has this vaccine been mandated for many incoming freshmen college students. Some states are mandating it as well, for all school-age children. It's a vaccine, just like Gardasil. Like all vaccines, it has possible side effects such as reported instances of Guillain-Barre. It's used to prevent an illness that strikes only 3,000 Americans a year, killing perhaps 300 and permanently disabling another 300. In other words, a fairly rare disease, albeit a devastating one. It's mandated in all U.S. military recruits.

Why scarcely a peep about this vaccine? Where was the outrage that some big Pharma company was making money off it?

Maybe someone can explain the difference in outrage between mengingitis vaccine and Gardasil. Is it all because rightwing moralists want girls to suffer for their sexuality? Is that what this is all about?