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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: 2) by stormreaver on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:38PM (5 children)
But your children are vaccinated, right? So what are you worried about?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:57PM (4 children)
The ignorance displayed in this rebuttal, mostly.
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Thursday July 11 2019, @11:44PM (3 children)
Such as...?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @01:21AM (2 children)
that vaccines aren't perfect miracle preventions for 100% of those vaccinated, or even available for 100% of those wanting to be vaccinated, for starters.
It seems you've been hiding under a rock for a long time now. Please review the articles about the measles outbreak in New York and the herd immunity issues going on in California and enlighten yourself at least a _little_ bit before you post further.
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Friday July 12 2019, @11:19AM (1 child)
Quite the contrary. I was just like you until I actually started researching vaccines. Perhaps you should stop regurgitating pharmaceutical news releases, and do some actual research of your own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @06:45PM
Wow! You conducted field trials yourself! You must be rich to do all that....
Oh, you just meant that you read what some other people said. People who have done no actual research themselves but just combed through data of others and put their spin on it. I see.