Vaccine.Vaccine.Vaccine.

STDs have a very bad stigma, even though basically everyone has sex. HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease causes the widely known HIV and Herpes virus, spread through “vaginal, anal, or oral sex,” so majority of the world old enough to have sex, can easily get this disease. Sexually transmitted diseases can cause minor problems, but in many unfortunate cases they are not so minor, causing cancer. One way to basically eliminate your chances of this occurring is to simply, get vaccinated, not that difficult.

HPV is causing way too many diseases in the US considering there is such an easy method of preventing it. Since 2005, rates of cancer due to HPV have risen by 45%. Why are people refusing to get this vaccine??? If the vaccine is taken even just once (when you should be getting 3 shots throughout your life) it prevents chance of getting HPV causing cancers by 90%. HPV is usually cleared out of the body, but the virus remains latent in the body, slowly killing it and infecting it, which is the problem that most people don’t realize. Although we may think that the US in in bad standings, compared to developing countries, HPV is a main killer.

The vaccine appeared in 2006, after years of people contracting the infection and dying from the outcome. Even with the new introduction of the prevention method, in 2007, HPV was still the highest killer among women across the world, with “493,000 new cases” each year. Researchers began first realizing what it was in 1984 as it was seen that 1% of women had cervical cancer in many developing countries, noting that it was a huge problem when there are little methods of treatment in these areas. In 2008, Professor Ian Frazer began introducing his vaccination method to undeveloped nations in order to prevent this deadly disease, as 85% of HPV infections occurred in developing countries. By 2014, HPV related cancers declined by 44.1%, which in my opinion isn’t enough because it is 100% preventable, but it still is something.