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by piperswe 456 days ago
> 90% of people have or will have had HPV in their lifetime

I suspect that number will soon become out-of-date, given that there's a widely available vaccination against HPV now.

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I think at this point that 90% statistic is mainly carried by HPV strains which are not protected against by the vaccine (which does protect against 9 strains). I'm not entirely sure if that number has gone down due to the vaccinations, or if the strains protected against have just become less common relative to other HPV strains