More than 42 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 59 are infected with genital human papillomavirus [HPV], according to the first survey to look at the prevalence of the virus in the adult population.
The report [pdf], published on Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that certain high-risk strains of the virus infected 25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women. These strains account for approximately 31,000 cases of cancer each year, other studies have shown.
Two vaccines are effective in preventing sexually transmitted HPV infection, and researchers said the new data lend urgency to the drive to have adolescents vaccinated.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/health/hpv-virus-survey-united-states.html
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:34PM (8 children)
For those who don't know, the United States is a circumcising people.
One of the really big modern justifications for this relio-cultural practice is that circumcision supposedly helps a lot in preventing the spread of a number of STDs, one of which is HPV.
Well, despite being a circumcising people, the U.S. is one of the most disgustingly infected of all the "first"-world nations, even when compared to those nasty countries where people don't subject their sons to such surgical correction of their sexual organs.
(Score: 2, Funny) by looorg on Monday April 10 2017, @12:02AM
... just imagine how bad it would have been if they didn't circumcise, HPV everywhere.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 10 2017, @01:59AM (1 child)
Any data if it's the same people that are circumcised, that get HPV? otherwise the data won't prove anything at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:11AM
It must be "those" kind of people who spread all the diseases to the rest of us "good folk". It couldn't be us *shocked face*.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:10AM (2 children)
So what percentage of Americans is actually circumcised?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 10 2017, @01:41PM (1 child)
Anyone who is of European descent and Christian is almost guaranteed to be circumcised. Both Catholics and Protestants.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 10 2017, @02:45PM
In 2005, about 56 percent of male newborns were circumcised prior to release from the hospital according to statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Data from a national survey conducted from 1999 to 2002 found that the overall prevalence of male circumcision in the United States was 79%.
Prevalence of circumcision - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision [wikipedia.org]
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:37PM (1 child)
Genital mutilation is predominately performed to reduce the sexual competitiveness of the younger generation relative to the older, literally to make them more docile. Most of the excuses are just that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:02PM
I doubt your view. I've read that among circumcising peoples, both men and their sexual partners suffer a greater degree of sexual frustration and performance problems; it seems like it would be a good way to build up young men's desire for violent outlets, like war.