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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

HPV Vaccine Found to Prevent Rare Respiratory Disease

By Ethan Covey

Australian researchers reported a decline in juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) due to the broad use of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine (qHPV) in that country. The decline also suggests that RRP is a consequence of the transmission of HPV type 6 or 11 from mother to child during birth. 

Due to Australia’s diligent HPV vaccination campaign, the difficult-to-treat disease is disappearing from the nation’s children (J Infect Dis 2017 Nov 9. [Epub