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Cervical Cancer Vaccine Can Also Protect Against Genital Warts
The vaccine, available since mid-2007 to all females between 12 and 26 years, is known to be effective against four strains of HPV, two of which cause genital warts.
A study carried out by the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR), University of New South Wales, found the vaccine has had a population-level impact on rates of genital wart infections.
The number of women aged under 27 resident in Australia who were diagnosed with genital warts had declined by 60 percent since 2007, the researchers found
There was no decline in warts among older women or among men who have sex with men groups which were not eligible for the government-funded vaccination.
The researchers pooled data from eight sexual health clinics Australia-wide, covering 110,000 new patients in the period 2004 to 2009.
About 6,000 new cases of genital warts were detected and analysis revealed a 60 per cent drop-off among women aged under 27.
Heterosexual men experienced a smaller but significant decline of just over 30 percent, probably due to herd immunity stemming from the vaccination of their sexual partners, the researchers said.
Genital warts are distressing to the patient, as well as being difficult and expensive to treat, said the head of the Sexual Health Program at NECHECR and the studys principal investigator, Professor Basil Donovan.
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