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HPV Vaccine May Provide Men with “Herd Immunity” against Oral HPV Infections

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: NCI Staff From: cancer.gov The potential benefits of vaccines are twofold: In addition to directly protecting those who get the vaccine, they also protect those who don’t. The latter, a phenomenon called herd immunity, occurs only if enough people get vaccinated that the disease-causing germ can’t spread easily. Now a new study suggests that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine …