Vaccine is against virus — not cervical cancer

YOUR report headlined ‘Cervical cancer vaccine delay a betrayal of 30,000 girls’ (February 17) contained a number of incorrect statements which need to be put right in the interest of those 30,000 young girls and their parents.

Tue, 02 Mar, 2010 - 00:00

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The report states that the vaccine is a cervical cancer vaccine.

It also stated that the vaccine “protects against the strains of the human papilloma virus which cause 70% of cervical cancers.

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