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[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by loochy

Never, because I'm a non responder.

Seriously, my wife is a pediatric provider. She gets a TON of questions on the HPV vaccine. It is VERY common. Most people are just carriers though. Women have much greater complications than men.

HPV prevalence was 24.5% (95% CI, 19.6%-30.5%) among females aged 14 to 19 years, 44.8% (95% CI, 36.3%-55.3%) among women aged 20 to 24 years, 27.4% (95% CI, 21.9%-34.2%) among women aged 25 to 29 years, 27.5% (95% CI, 20.8%-36.4%) among women aged 30 to 39 years, 25.2% (95% CI, 19.7%-32.2%) among women http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article....ticleid=205774

It is estimated that half of all men have HPV. http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditio...ve-genital-hpv

My wife's cervical cancer, which was diagnosed in 2013 and led to a radical hysterectomy, was caused by HPV.

It's nasty. Both of my daughters will receive the vaccine when they're of proper age.