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Is the HPV useful for someone who already has HPV, but is asymptomatic, and does not know it?
by everdrive 4y ago
Is the HPV useful for someone who already has HPV, but is asymptomatic, and does not know it?
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoThere is some evidence that at least some HPV vaccines can help against existing, symptomatic HPV.* The one I linked was with a quadrivalent HPV vaccine, so, not the Gardasil-9 that is currently in use. I know there are even more case reports about this topic out there. If it works like that for already symptomatic infection, it will work equally or better against asymptomic / presymptomatic infection. But, an authoritative answer to your question does not exist. * https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-8371-z https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s... Besides that, there is the high likelihood that you aren't infected with all variants of HPV the vaccine protects against, so go for it. I can only repeat my claim, that getting the HPV vaccination series is a good idea for almost everyone at every age (the younger the better), besides almost esoteric exceptions (e.g. those severely immunocompromised people that also don't create covid vaccine antibodies and monks with life long sexual abstinence).