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Thanks for highlighting this, Charlie.  Every year, ~250,000 women die of
cervical cancer, mostly caused by HPV, and this very effective vaccine
could dramatically reduce this within one generation.  A remarkable
achievement of evidence-based medicine!

The HPV vaccine was developed primarily in the United States and Australia.
And yet, in the United States, only 1/3 of teenage girls have received the
recommended full course of HPV vaccine, and 44% of American parents are
opposed to vaccinating their daughters against HPV, mostly for some
combination of scientific ignorance and denial of adolescent sexuality.  In
other developed countries (including Australia), the rates of HPV
vaccination are much higher, and even in Rwanda it's 80%.  So it looks like
cervical cancer is on course to become a peculiarly American disease in the
future.

The CDC recommends that all girls and boys get the three-dose HPV vaccine
at age 11 or 12.  The vaccine is also recommended for people under age 26
who were not already vaccinated.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hpv/vac-faqs.htm




On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Charles Carlson <[log in to unmask]
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> The preventative affect of the vaccine has markedly reduced the prevalence
> of human papillomavirus.  It's a testament to the power of modern medicine
> and science in terming the causality and method of prevention.
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