Single HPV Shot Enough For Young Women
A single vaccine shot against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, delivers comparable protection for girls and women under 21 as two doses, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) immunisation experts said."This could be a game-changer for the prevention of the disease, seeing more doses of the life-saving jab reach more girls," the WHO said.More than 95 percent of cervical cancer is caused by sexually-transmitted HPV, which is the fourth most common type of canc