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Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer (mosaicscience.com)
3 points by bryanrasmussen on May 16, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Except they have no mechanism to "wipe out" cervical cancer not caused by the specific strains addressed by whichever vaccine they use, and even their benefits generally require three vaccinations over a 13-month period.

The best possible result would be prevention of 90% of infection exposures, which is hardly a wipe out.




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