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bmalak··on Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak
> HPV which is unimportant

Wrong. HPV vaccine is super important.

In 2018 nearly 580k women were diagnosed with cervical cancer. 70% of said cancer is caused by HPV (by two strains of it to be exact). So that is 406k women each year getting cervical cancer which could have been prevented if they were vaccinated, and that’s only counting people who were diagnosed. Now consider that HPV is also known to cause cancers in other organs, both reproductive and non-reproductive, and that these affect not only women but men as well.

Granted only 14 of the 100+ strains are linked to cancer, but still. That’s a lot of preventable cancer.

The CDC recommends the vaccine for basically everyone up to 26, and the FDA has approved a vaccine for up to 45.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-papil...