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Volume 356:1074-1075 March 8, 2007 Number 10
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Compulsory HPV Vaccination

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by Colgrove, J.
To the Editor: In his Perspective article on the ethics and politics of compulsory vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) (Dec. 7 issue),1 Colgrove highlights the perception that HPV vaccination is a women's health issue, yet he also alludes to the question of how much herd immunity may be necessary to protect unvaccinated women from cervical cancer. Exploration of the question of herd immunity exposes HPV vaccination as a men's health issue as well — that is, men are responsible for half the cases of transmission of the virus, and vaccinating men, if found to be effective in reducing the transmission . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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