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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine (www.bbc.com)
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This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.

Expect even more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If only they had known that it is also something that men can get from sex.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

That’s the part that I think perhaps wasn’t communicated well enough. So much focus is put on the women getting it that their little pea brains decided that women were the only ones affected.

…Or maybe not. They disapprove of sex outside of marriage for men too… officially.

In reality they have a much more complicated relationship with it; a man who doesn’t sleep around isn’t virile enough, but in their eyes marriage is sacred, so boys are told ‘don’t have sex before marriage’, with a pretty hefty nudge-nudge-wink-wink and boys-will-be-boys attached.

But if they get sick for it, oh well, they were warned!