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2026-06-18 02:59 UTC
@jeneralist@mstdn.science I can't find any reference to which vaccine we're talking about here, is it gardasil 9 or a newer, better one?
(I knew someone who had pre-cancerous lesions from one of the much rarer HPV strains against which gardasil 9 doesn't safeguard)
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@jeneralist@mstdn.science 2026-06-18 03:28
@renardboy@mastodon.social I didn't find specific mention of which HPV vaccine were used when in the Lancet article mentioned by the BBC, except for this: "Since the HPV vaccine offered to those born before 2000 was bivalent, it is unlikely to have provided more than 90% protection..." The bivalent HPV vaccine was called Cervarix in the US. Gardasil came later -- quadravalent, but strains were chosen to cover 2 associated with cervical cancer and 2 others associated with genital warts. Now using Gardasil 9.