4 Easy Steps to HPV Prevention for College Students About 14% of sexually active female college students get infected with at least one of the 40 genital strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) each year, according to the latest statistics from cervicalcancer.org.� While there is currently no “cure” for the virus and using protection only slightly reduces the chances of transmission, there is a vaccine available to help prevent at the very least the cervical-cancer causing strains of HPV from attacking the body. Gardasil, which was released in 2006, is designed to be administered in three dosages over a six month window. However, an alarming new study reveals that the [...]
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