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...in Australia

• tialaramex 7y ago
  And a bunch of other countries with routine vaccination programs. These programmes make extra sense in a country with universal healthcare because the country is paying for cancer treatment if its people get cancer, so preventing cancer actually saves the whole country money.
• mg794613 7y ago
  And the Netherlands. I got it when I was 18 as the girls were getting it, the government decided it would be cheaper and more effective to do boys at the same time. HPV effects have plummeted, but this is hard to prove. What shocks me is that a lot of comments show a understanding of the average Facebook-mom. (misinterpreting workings of herd immunity, whilst the article doesn't even mention that, it clearly is about direct effects.) This is HN!