Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Vaccinate all boys too – Telegraaf.nl

All men over 12 years in the Netherlands should be preventively vaccinated against the sexually transmitted and often cancer-causing HPV virus. This clear advice to the Health Council of the eminent pathologist Professor Chris Meijer of the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam

 Photo: Robert Vos

Sixty percent of girls and young women does already vaccinated against this virus. The HPV or human papillomavirus is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and causes include cervical cancer.

Dutch researchers argue that protection of women “no longer the only goal of an HPV vaccination program should be” . It was thought that the virus only from male to female was transferred, but it appears a mutual risk of infection

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