Here comes more evidence that vaccines are saving lives.
A new study published in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatricians, finds that rates of HPV have plummeted among girls and young women as a result of a vaccine that was introduced about ten years ago.
"Within 6 years of vaccine introduction, there was a 64 percent decrease in 4vHPV type prevalence among females aged 14 to 19 years and a 34 percent decrease among those aged 20 to 24 years," concluded the team of medical researchers, lead by Dr. Lauri Markowitz, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control.
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