From STAT in January 2024 but trending in social media today:
An historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.
Many previous studies have shown that HPV vaccines are extremely effective in preventing cervical cancer. But the study, published on Monday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is the first to monitor a national cohort of women over such a long time period and find no occurrence of cervical cancer.
“The study is super exciting. It shows that the vaccine is extremely effective,” said Kathleen Schmeler, a professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who was not involved in the research. “It’s obviously early. We’re just starting to see the first data of the impact of the vaccine because it takes so long from the time of the vaccine to the effects.”
The results underscore the importance of working to increase uptake of the HPV vaccine in the U.S., said Schmeler. Scotland, for example, introduced routine immunization in schools in 2008, and close to 90% of students in their fourth year of secondary school (equivalent to 10th grade in the U.S.) in the 2022-2023 school year had received at least one dose of the vaccine. In the U.S., where HPV vaccines are not administered in school, uptake among adolescents ages 13 to 17 is a little over 60%.
The study also points to how crucial the timing of vaccination is. “The girls that didn’t develop any cancer were vaccinated before becoming sexually active,” said Schlemer. “So we should not wait to vaccinate folks and really do it, for the guidelines, prior to becoming sexually active.”
https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-vaccine-prevent-cervical-cancer-cervarix-gardasil-study/
The same age group, in England have also seen a massive 90% reduction in cervical cancer incidence: https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2021/11/03/the-power-of-science-hpv-vaccine-proven-to-dramatically-reduce-cervical-cancer/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
This cant be true the SNP have ground Scotland down it the years they have been in Government according to the new Tory leader
Well done Nicola.
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Top item on BBC Radio Scotland, I presume, the success having been achieved thanks to guidance from a leading London hospital, no doubt…
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GMS will be all over thus good news from Scotland’s NHS tomorrow ….what ? … they’re leading with an incomer on Arran complaining that his Daily Mail was delayed for an hour due to a ferry being late ?…FFS !
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Well as to this particular positive that is linked to NS and the SNP one can be sure that the BBC will not be commissioning any documentary programme upon it to enlighten viewers in Scotland.
Or indeed will it be the topic in ‘Call Kaye’ as she prefers only those topics that promote #SNPBAD as befits her obvious animosity against both the SNP and independence.
That’s because their BBC Scottish (ILO) IN tray is overflowing with stories that they have both conspired with and concocted with opposition parties and also sourced from other individuals who are opposed to the SNP too.
Indeed if any positive story should leak out in connection to the SNP then the BBC will try to find an angle that promotes it in a negative light , which often can be found via them getting ‘quotes aka opinions from’ from those in opposition parties, who amazingly can never, as opposition parties, find anything positive or beneficial in anything that the SNP, as the Scottish government , deliver to or for the people of Scotland.
I say “amazingly” but really the clue in this is that they are ‘opposition parties’ hence they see it as their job to oppose. (always).
They , as the opposition, are conditioned to always behave and react negatively to everything and anything that is sourced from the SNP.
The BBC knows that but they continue to pretend that the opposition parties, and others also, various objections against the SNP are somehow always worth highlighting , are valid , have some real substance and laughingly are supposedly to be seen by the public as opinions that are objective and not purely partisan.
God forbid the BBC in Scotland (or elsewhere) would ever commission anything that was remotely #SNPGOOD as that would be a ‘Hell Freeze Over’ moment for sure .
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Amazing!
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