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Cervical cancer vaccination for pre-teens
AP   Friday, 30 June 2006

The Gardasil vaccine is seen in this undated handout photo released June 8, 2006. The first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer won U.S. approval on Thursday when health officials cleared the Merck & Co. Inc. shot to block a sexually transmitted infection that causes the deadly disease. The vaccine blocks infection with certain types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts and most cervical cancer and public health experts called the Gardasil vaccine a major advance against a disease that kills about 300,000 women worldwide annually.   FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY      NO SALES      NO ARCHIVE      REUTERS/Merck & Co. Inc./Handout  (UNITED STATES)AP - Taking up a potentially explosive issue among religious conservatives, an influential government advisory panel Thursday recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.


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