> That said, I find the quoted statistic suspect. First of all, the first vaccine wasn't even licensed until 2006, and there wasn't a vaccine that addressed mor

> That said, I find the quoted statistic suspect. First of all, the first vaccine wasn't even licensed until 2006, and there wasn't a vaccine that addressed more than 4 of the cancer-causing subtypes until 2014[0]. Second, they only targeted girls of age 12-13 (although they provided free vaccinations on manual request through age 19), leaving out girls in the upper 70% of the age range altogether from the survey population. I'm guessing herd immunity kicked in at some point between 2005 and 2015