vaccine blocks cervical cancer?

[topaz]

A preliminary study has found that a new vaccine is 100% effective at blocking cervical cancer.

edit: I neglected to credit the always-alert opadit for pointing me at this.

Comments

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

that's rocking news, but isn't a few years old? I seem to remember being really fucking happy that my daughter would not have to worry about that bit of nastiness, and in that memory, the daughter I was happy for was a figment of my imagination, not the living, breathing creepy crawlie I have sleeping upstairs.

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

in the same place that I heard that preliminary news, I also recall hearing that early trials of a herpes vaccine were getting rock star results, but only in women.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Only in women who were negative for both HSV1 and HSV2. And, of course, you can't get into a study on it (I tried; was dinged for being too old), and there's no indication of when an HSV vaccine might be available to the general public. :(