Also throat cancer in men.
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angrystego@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe important and nastiest part of HSV is some strains cause cervical cancer in women, so men with HSV must take care not to spread something that has the potential to kill their partner. There is a vaccine, but it doesn’t work 100%.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
the vaccine is very effective
ThoGot@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Are you sure that you don’t mean HPV?
Saryn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Indeed, the cancer thing applies to women with HPV, a virus that most people have also been affected with (though the vast majority of cases do not lead to cancer which still leaves tens of million of women at risk).
angrystego@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, yeah, I seem to mess them up - HPV is the one with vaccine, HPS is similar in that it can be a cause of cervical cancer, but the matter is less researched and I don’t know about a vaccine.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nah, cervical cancer is down to such an extent in the vaccinated cohorts that we can confidently say that it was the HPV causing it. Those vaccinations have been a massive, massive success. Much more than expected by public health scientists.