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Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form

posted by on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-yoga-teacher-says-vaccines-cause-autism dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 10 2017, @02:58AM (4 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Monday April 10 2017, @02:58AM (#491471) Journal

    > Teenagers will have sex. So you can steer it, but not avoid it.

    Chastity belts are still a thing:

    On February 6, 2004, USA Today reported that at Athens airport in Greece, a woman's steel chastity belt had triggered a security alarm at the metal detector. The woman explained that her husband had forced her to wear the device to prevent an extramarital affair while she was on vacation in Greece.

    -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_belt#Other_occurrences [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by charon on Monday April 10 2017, @03:00AM (1 child)

    by charon (5660) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:00AM (#491474) Journal
    And that's not unutterably creepy behavior?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:37AM (#491520)

      Its probably an S&M thing.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @07:32PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 10 2017, @07:32PM (#491872) Journal

    Chastity belts are still a thing

    2004 was a long time ago. We live in modern times now.

    --
    The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 10 2017, @11:34PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 10 2017, @11:34PM (#492014) Journal

    If it saves the husband from HIV etc.. It surely have benefits. Besides from a wife that have a huge backlog of not-for-children.