10% Of Women Infected With Human PapillomaVirus

A new study by the Health protection Agency estimates at least 10% of untried women in England have been infected with unrivalled or more strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) by the historic period of 16. The study will be discussed on the net twenty-four hour period of the Health Protection Agency annual conference inward Warwick.

The examine, the 1st of its tolerant in England , investigated the proportion of women of age 10-29 old who had antibodies indicating they had been septic with HPV. Researchers tried and true blood samples from 1483 girls and women for types of HPV that terminate do genital warts and cervical Crab. Results evidence that from the age of 14, the risk of HPV infection increases precipitously.

Or So HPV infections sack do cervical cancers in women and genital warts in both women and men, although about infections with HPV cause no symptoms and exculpated on their own.

Andrew Vyse, who is presenting the cogitation to the conference aforementioned: "This study gives us critical information virtually how coarse HPV infection is Indiana young women of dissimilar ages. However it does have some limitations and does not give a exact estimate of infection rates in immature women in England therefore more than work needs to constitute done.

The study adds to what we already know some HPV, withal we nonetheless need to learn to a greater extent about the risks of infection and of the risks for pertinacious infection and advancement to cancer.

Professor Slick Promenade , Principal Executive of the Agency said: "This study is a valuable plus to our understanding of HPV infection in women in England and should lead to in effect policies to forestall genital warts and cervical cancer.

With the Government's late declaration of the possible introduction of HPV vaccination, such explore will help United States of America and other public health experts to determine the touch on of HPV vaccination."

1. The Health Protection Agency's annual conference takes range at Warwick University from 17 to 19 September. Promote information sack constitute found atomic number 85 the conference website at http://www.healthprotectionconference.org.uk.
2. A replete copy of the paper "Prevalence of human papillomavirus antibodies in untried female subjects in England" is published in the Brits Journal of Cancer 2007.