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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: 0.232s | 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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unavoidable ◴[09 Apr 25 22:32 UTC] No.43638750[source]▶
While this advice is good, the article is discussing HSV (herpes simplex virus), not HPV (human papilloma virus), which have quite different symptoms and epidemiology. There are, as yet, no approved HSV vaccines.
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1. interludead ◴[10 Apr 25 06:15 UTC] No.43641170[source]▶
That said, I feel like any thread about viral transmission is probably a good place for an HPV vaccine reminder too