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On Oct. 20, the Consultive Committee on Immunization Practices licensed and recommended Gardasil, the vaccination for Benevolent Papillomavirus, for males.
Recent research has shown anal, throat and access cancers are becoming more prominent in the United States, and high-risk HPV is implicated. About 95 percent of all anal cancers, 60 percent of all cancers of the entr and throat, and about 35 percent of all penile cancers are linked to HPV, according to the Centers for Infirmity Control and Prevention.
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the Mutual States, even more common than chlamydia and HIV, Towson University Health Educator Lenore Meyers said.
“Most people will get HPV at some things if they have sex of any kind with somebody,” she said. “Like, 80 percent will get it in their lifetime. But most of it is not destructive, and most of the time, people get the low-risk kind.”
Meyers said the vaccination Gardasil was from the outset made for women to prevent cervical cancer, which high-risk strains of HPV implicated.
Source: Towerlight