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Feb 24, 2007
Quickie Link: Gay STD vaccine use 'a waste of money'
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By vanrozenheim
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(Australia) - Gay men who are demanding access to the Australian-made "sex disease" vaccine Gardasil may be wasting their money, says the drug's designer Ian Frazer. The Scots-born former Australian of the Year said while his vaccine probably protects men from genital warts and genital cancers, they would need to get the jab early in their sexual life to benefit. He said it was true homosexual men were at a much higher risk of anal cancer and genital warts, particularly if they are HIV-positive, because HPV was common and passed around "very enthusiastically". "But chances are they already have the strains," he said.
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