The Daily Background
| 1/3rd of American women infected with HPV, and the Christian conservatives rally against vaccination
Filed at 7:40 pm, Wednesday February 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
More than one-third of American women are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which in rare cases can lead to cervical cancer, by the time they are 24 years old, according to a study being published today.
The new estimates suggest that there are 7.5 million girls and women 14 to 24 years old infected with the microbe — about two-thirds more than an earlier but less comprehensive study had found.
Naturally, the Christian Right will just love this statistic.
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