Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 22, 2016. For a new study in the March 2016 Pediatrics, government researchers compared human papillomavirus (HPV) infection rates among U.S. teens and young women before and after vaccination against the cancer-causing virus was introduced in 2006.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), they found that among females between age 14 and 19 years old, prevalence of the HPV types targeted by the vaccines dropped from…
