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The HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics: A Guide for Parents, Women, Men, and Teenagers

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The Human Papilloma Virus, so-called HPV, is among the most widespread sexually transmitted diseases in The us, with more than 20 million infected now and more than 6 million new cases detected each year. It is estimated that at least 50 percent of all sexually active people will be infected all through their lifetimes. And even as the silent disease may cause no symptoms typically, two strains of HPV cause some 70 percent of all cervical cancer, which strikes more than 10,000 women in the USA alone each year. So it is with great fanfare than an HPV vaccine, tested all over the world and approved by america government in 2006, is being marketed. But controversy surrounds the vaccine, which is being really useful for girls as young as 9 and may be mandated by state governments. In this timely book, Shobha Krishnan, M.D., of Barnard College, Columbia University – a longtime gynecologist and family physician, and mother of a young daughter – explains in layterms both the disease and vaccine to parents, youths, women and men. She also addresses the controversy, legislative aims to require the vaccine, and another vaccine to hit the market this year. Krishnan also raises the issue of whether boys must get the vaccine. Coverage across the book is comprehensive and addresses both the pros and cons of anyone being innoculated.

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