Comment on Anon contracts herpes

• Saryn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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