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Should Boys Also Get Vaccinated For HPV?
from NPR
Many adolescents are having back-to-school visits with their doctors. That usually means shots--including, for some, the HPV vaccine. It's mainly given to adolescent girls to protect against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer.
But there's a debate among scientists about whether to immunize boys as well. If this were a high school debate, it would go something like this:
Be it resolved that all adolescent girls and boys should be vaccinated against HPV before they are sexually active, since more than half of all sexually active men and women will get HPV at some point in their lives.
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