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New study shows HPV vaccine is working to reduce rates of genital warts

  • Written by Dave Hawkes, Honorary Fellow at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne
imageFor young women, receiving the cervical cancer vaccine has also meant a massive drop in genital warts, which are caused by the same virus. NHS Employers/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was introduced in Australia in 2007 and New Zealand in 2008 to prevent cervical cancer. It is free for women up to age 26 in Australia and to...

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