HPV VACCINE - HPV VACCINATION - VACCINE FOR HPV - HPV VACCINES - ADULT IMMUNIZATION

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Why you should vaccinate adults against human papillomavirus
  • The vaccine protects against two types of HPV that cause 70 percent of all cervical cancers; there were more than 11,000 U.S. cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in 2008.

  • There are more than six million new infections annually in the U.S., with nearly three out of four in females younger than age 24.

  • 80 percent of women will be infected with HPV by age 50.
 
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