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Anecdote here, but…In the US you can get vaccinated for HPV until I think age 45. I did it a few years ago at age 40. I used to get bad ulcers in the back of my
by avidphantasm 3y ago
Anecdote here, but…In the US you can get vaccinated for HPV until I think age 45. I did it a few years ago at age 40. I used to get bad ulcers in the back of my throat 3-4 times per year, now I rarely do. Hoping that this means the risk of cancer will be reduced as well.
- Laaas 3y agoIn Denmark you have to be a man who has sex with men (MSM) to get it as a male. Don't see why there is a need for discrimination.
- anigbrowl 3y agoMaybe the odds of getting it through cunnilingus are a lot lower than through fellatio. There's no possibility of throat contact in the former case and what seems like a short distance to us might be an impassible obstacle for a virus.
- Laaas 3y agoYes, but if the man has it, his partner will likely also get it.
- avidphantasm 3y agoApparently cunnilingus contributed to Michael Douglas getting throat cancer.
- anigbrowl 3y agoI had forgotten about that. That does make the decision harder to understand, unless there's a strong statistical tilt backing it up.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoAnecdotes aren't data, and one film star getting oral cancer does not an epidemic make. Plus, as a good looking actor, I'm sure that mouth of his was getting a lot of use compared to the average person; the 1% of rug munchers. His risk profile may be a wildly uncommon exception, and as a rich dude he can pay for whatever medical stuff he needs out of pocket.
- HideousKojima 3y agoPretty much all vaccines (and most medicines and health interventions in general) have the possibility for adverse reactions and side effects. Health agencies will often balance the likelihood of adverse effects against how likely various population groups are to get a disease (and how serious the symptoms of the disease are).
- Gigachad 3y agoDon't think that's the case here. In Australia they give it to everyone in high school. The vaccine is most effective when taken as an early teenager. So it makes way more sense to do it to everyone early than wait to see who is gay and sexually active when it's less effective.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoSeems pretty easy to lie in that case? I’m assuming they don’t make you prove it?
- Laaas 3y agoThey didn't in my case.
- megadopechos 3y agoAlmost 40 here and my doctor recommended I get it since my father died of throat cancer and I couldn't recall if I'd ever been vaccinated for HPV. Here's hoping!