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Originally Posted by Spuds

It sounds like you are saying the hpv vaccine is for a virus that causes a specific kind of damage which can result in cancerous growth. I do not think that means there is actually a vaccine for the cancer cells themselves, though perhaps I am misunderstanding the mechanics of it?

Agreed on the common cold, I just didn't feel the need to go into that much detail.

No. You are right that there is distinction to be made, but generally, the HPV vaccine is taken to specifically prevent the cancers that can come from HPV. It can also be to avoid genital warts, but this is secondary, and there is no tertiary roll to try to prevent all form of HPV that are otherwise asymptomatic or rarely symptomatic or disease causing.

Three vaccines are available to prevent infection by some HPV types: Gardasil, Gardasil 9 and Cervarix; all three protect against initial infection with HPV types 16 and 18, which cause most of the HPV-associated cancer cases. Gardasil also protects against HPV types 6 and 11, which cause 90% of genital warts. Gardasil is a recombinant quadrivalent vaccine, whereas Cervarix is bivalent, and is prepared from virus-like particles (VLP) of the L1 capsid protein. Gardasil 9 is nonavalent, it has the potential to prevent about 90% of cervical, vulvar, vaginal, and anal cancers. It can protect for HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58; the latter five cause up to 20% of cervical cancers which were not previously covered.

The common cold stuff wasn't directed at you--only the cancer stuff because there is a link between viruses and cancers.

https://www.mdanderson.org/publicati...7-1592202.html