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Australia May Soon Eliminate Cervical Cancer

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Australia May Soon Eliminate Cervical Cancer

The International Papillomavirus Society has announced that Australia could become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer entirely.
According to a new study, Australia’s efforts to distribute a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for free in schools have been a resounding success. The sexually transmitted infection causes 99.9 percent of cases of cervical cancer.
In 2007, the Australian federal government began offering the vaccine to girls aged 12-13, and in 2013 it was made available to boys, too. Girls and boys outside of that age bracket but under nineteen are also entitled to two free doses of the vaccine.
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Sounds like a good plan to me.
 
I guess they don't have as many anti-vaccination folks there.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Australia May Soon Eliminate Cervical Cancer




Sounds like a good plan to me.
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We'll see.

I think that the link that HPV "causes" cervical cancer is questionable.

About 80% of sexually active people will contract HPV at some point in their lives.

Knowing if you have HPV often is only because of physical exam. Which means that you are not only carry the HPV virus but that it causes a change in your cells so that a wart grows.

Its conceivable that the reason that HPV is linked to cervical cancer.. is because if you have an immune system that will allow a wart to grow.. you have a system that is ALSO independently susceptible to cervical cancer.
 
jaeger19 said:
We'll see.

I think that the link that HPV "causes" cervical cancer is questionable.

About 80% of sexually active people will contract HPV at some point in their lives.

Knowing if you have HPV often is only because of physical exam. Which means that you are not only carry the HPV virus but that it causes a change in your cells so that a wart grows.

Its conceivable that the reason that HPV is linked to cervical cancer.. is because if you have an immune system that will allow a wart to grow.. you have a system that is ALSO independently susceptible to cervical cancer.
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Then we will see. If HPV does not, in fact, cause cervical cancer, then the Aussies won't eliminate it.
 
Bet Paul Hogan has a hand in this. He's a national treasure.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Great news! It's working in Scotland where the incidence of pre-cervical cancer cells has dropped NINETY PER CENT in the ten years since routine HPV vaccination began.

HPV vaccine linked to 'dramatic' drop in cervical disease - BBC News
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That seems to answer the question of whether HPV causes cervical cancer, doesn't it? Now, the Luddites will have to come up with something new. The nonsense about vaccines causing autism has worked well to keep measles going.
 
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