Boys Should Get HPV Vaccine Too, CDC Says

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

A vaccine originally intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls should be given to boys as well, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today (Oct. 25).The panel voted to recommend the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be given to boys ages 11 to 12. The vaccine is already recommended for girls of this age. [More]

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