Many teen girls are receiving HPV vaccine
About 2.5 million girls ages 13 through 17 started the vaccination series against human papillomavirus in 2007, according to a recent survey by the CDC. Specifically 25% of surveyed teen girls had been given at least one of the three HPV vaccine shots and many were in the process of completing the series at the time of the survey.
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus that is spread through sexual contact. Most of the time, HPV has no symptoms so people don’t even know that they have it. The HPV vaccine is given in 3 separate doses over a 6-month period, and it works by preventing the most common types of HPV that cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
Underlining the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in America’s teens today, 25 percent of teen girls were found to have a sexually transmitted disease, in an earlier study by the CDC. The most common of these diseases included human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis.
Read more about HPV from Bay Area Medical Information
via CDC, October 2008
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