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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: 0s | 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. drew870mitchell ◴[10 Apr 25 04:40 UTC] No.43640671[source]▶
My guess is it's cost driven? IIRC insurance would not pay for mine when i was out of the recommendation pool but they did (were legally required to afaik) when the pool expanded to include my age group.