Human papillomavirus infection

HPV is sexually transmitted

The provincial health bureau has rejected allegations regarding a university in a small northern province in Türkiye that hosts thousands of foreign students, as some Turkish students anonymously claim to have contracted viruses after sexual encounters with international counterparts.

Only a very small percentage of boys in Greece have received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

Despite the fact that this vaccine is one of the two for cancer prevention, less than one in 10 boys aged 9 and older have had it. And this is despite the fact that since April 2022 it has been included in the National Vaccination Program and is therefore administered free of charge.

In a lawsuit regarding the fee of the HPV vaccine, which has been campaigned to be free for a while as it provides essential protection against cervical cancer, a court has decided that the cost of the vaccine should be covered by the Social Security Institution (SGK), marking a landmark decision.

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The Ministry of Health organised a working seminar on Thursday, attended by Romanian and foreign specialists, patients, family doctors, to prepare an action plan to inform and educate the population regarding the vaccine against HPV, but also about vaccination in general, shows a press release sent AGERPRES.

Nearly every fourth of every ten cases of cancer in the United States (42%) are due to poor lifestyle choices, including smoking, poor nutrition and other avoidable factors. This shows a new study by American scientists, which calculates the contribution of several so-called variable risk factors for the onset of cancer, reports actualno. 

In a world obsessed with everything about sex, and let’s be frank, with the rise of hedonism and pleasure, having “relations” with animals is just one more “preference”. Some of course would consider this choice as perverse, but others are turned on by fornicating with animals. All over the world and from varying cultures supporters of bestiality see nothing unnatural with their choices!

In messages sent ahead of International AIDS Day on December 1, experts reported that a lack of awareness, in particular among the young, and the large influx of migrants to Greece were the main cause for the rapid increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in recent years.

A study from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York found that oral sex dramatically increases the risk of head and cancers. The new research suggested that people carrying the virus in their mouth were an alarming 22 times more likely to develop a lethal tumor.