Bibliofishy📚☕️16h ago
Kriszta Satori
#BBCNews - Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o
HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

BBC News
Jun 18 at 4:25amWeb
Show threadJens Finkhäuser15h ago
@fulelo Now give boys the vaccine.
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.15h ago

@jens @fulelo Standard practice in Norway since 2018.

Source:
https://www.fhi.no/va/vaksinasjonshandboka/vaksiner-mot-de-enkelte-sykdommene/hpv-vaksinasjon/

HPV-vaksine (Humant papillomavirus)

HPV-vaksine inngår i barnevaksinasjonsprogrammet for å beskytte mot kreft som skyldes infeksjon med humant papillomavirus. Fra høsten 2018 har det vært et kjønnsnøytralt tilbud på 7. trinn.

Folkehelseinstituttet
Show threadMichael U12h ago
@jens @fulelo in New Zealand boys get it. I had a throat cancer I would have avoided if I had had the vaccine (or admittedly if I hadn't got HPV, but...)
Show threadJaakko Niemi4h ago
@jens @fulelo Yup, less worries of frontal stuff cancers and not worries about being the vector of distribution.