The Atlantic: “Every 20 minutes a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with with a human-papilloma virus-associated cancer. Most of those cancers could be prevented with an HPV vaccine. But fewer than half of American children are given the vaccination, CDC officials announced yesterday.  If as many people got vaccinated against HPV as do against whooping cough (which is still not a perfect number, 86 percent), there would be thousands fewer cases of head, neck, and pelvic cancer in men and women every year. If the United States could reach the same vaccination rates as Rwanda, for example, CDC has previously noted, it would prevent 50,000 girls alive today from getting cervical cancer.”

• Press Release – “CDC officials announced today that the number of girls and boys aged 13-17 years receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine remains unacceptably low despite a slight increase in vaccination coverage since 2012, according to data from CDC′s 2013 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) published in this week′s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).”