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HPV vaccine for boys 'will prevent thousands of cancers'
[UK] health officials say the HPV vaccine for 12 to 13-year-old boys, starting after the summer, will prevent 29,000 cancers in UK men in the next 40 years. The boys will be eligible from the start of the new school year, 11 years after girls were first vaccinated.
The jab protects against human papilloma virus, which causes many oral, throat and anal cancers.
[...] Why are boys now getting the jab? Because the programme to vaccinate teenage girls, and reduce cervical cancers, has proved very successful.
There has been a reduction in HPV infections, genital warts and pre-cancerous growths in teenage girls and young women since the vaccine was introduced. Other groups, like teenage boys, have seen benefits too because the virus is not being passed on to them. To protect boys even more, and reduce cancers of the anus, penis and head and neck in the future, health experts say they should be offered the HPV vaccine too.
Also at The Guardian and The Telegraph.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Snotnose on Wednesday July 10 2019, @11:45PM (7 children)
I doubt 127.0.0.1 sex counts, so instead of thousands it's probably more like hundreds, and 10s if you subtract wishful thinking.
I know I dirtied a lot more socks than held hands with girls, let alone had sex with them.
/ they aren't women until they hit 18
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday July 11 2019, @12:00AM (3 children)
They are counting cancers that will develop in adult men years or decades later.
They should have the vaccine before sex.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday July 11 2019, @12:17AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @12:33AM (1 child)
Cancer cooties! You get it from girls! Eeewwwwwww!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:29AM
Send thos incels to the cloud of war. That will straighten them up.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:29AM (2 children)
This is exactly why a lot of fucked-up right-wing religious nutjobs oppose it. Sex is evil. If you have sex you should get cancer and die. Never mind that the UK and AU are on track to practically eliminate cervical cancer.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:58PM (1 child)
You can't eliminate cancer. It's not a disease you can eradicate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:20PM
Did you read the article? UK and AU are eliminating cervical cancer. Yeah, you might still get other cancers, it isn't one disease, but this cancer you can eliminate.
Except for all the nutjobs like you who oppose vaccination because it means you have to admit that your little Susie might have sex before she gets married. I bet you think abstinence-only sex education works too.