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Senate proposal spreads HPV vaccine message without requiring shots
Naked Politics | Posted: February 22, 2012 7:46 PM
Years after the Legislature retreated from an effort to require HPV vaccines for middle school girls, one Senate panel has approved a different approach. The measure would require that all students entering the sixth grade receive information about human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that causes genital warts and about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, as well as information about a vaccine that can prevent infection.
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