Cervical cancer is killing African American women at twice the previously reported rate in spite of the HPV vaccine
‘Recent studies supposedly proving the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine manipulated data to make the cervical cancer death rate among black women look much lower than it actually is, according to a study recently published in the journal Cancer.
Vaccine supporters had pointed to the studies as evidence that cervical cancer rates have been falling due to vaccination against HPV (human papillomavirus), several strains of which have been linked to cervical cancer development. But the death rate of black women from cervical cancer is actually twice as high as was reported by the studies, the new analysis found.
Prior research has also shown that the commercially available HPV vaccines may not protect against the virus strains most likely to infect black women.’
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