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A Quiet But Very Busy Virus
About one in four females ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus responsible for genital warts and cervical cancer. That’s according to a new survey in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 7.5 million women between the ages of 14 and 24 carry the human papillomavirus, about 60% more than suggested by previous studies. The survey also found that women ages 20 tp 24 are the most likely to be infected. The four strains that the new HPV vaccine – recommended for girls and women ages 11 to 26 – protects against were found to occur in 3.4 percent of women. Most of those infected with HPV have benign strains that cause no symptoms and usually disappear in their own. The new estimate “gives us a platform to measure trends and changes over time, such as the effectiveness of prevention strategies like the HPV vaccine,” says study leader Eileen Dunne, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC.
We at IHR see this as nothing more than a pharmaceutical multibillion-dollar windfall.
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