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Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission

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180 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 19:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.344s | source
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sitkack ◴[09 Apr 25 19:49 UTC] No.43636938[source]▶
PSA, everyone should be getting the HPV vaccine, regardless of age and gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine

https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/wh...

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/oropharyngeal-cancer.html

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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[09 Apr 25 20:30 UTC] No.43637565[source]▶
Annoyed at how the guidance has changed on this over the years. At first it was just a narrow slice of 20 something women. Then girl teenagers. Then men and women under 30. Then under 40.

If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool.

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1. iamtheworstdev ◴[09 Apr 25 23:34 UTC] No.43639128[source]▶
With regards to HPV, when they tried recommmending (and even making it mandatory) for young print the Christian-right cried foul pretty hard. The Texas Governor got a heap of shit over it at the time because abstinence is the only thing teenagers should know about.