Close to Half of American Adults Infected With HPV, Survey Finds -

Close to Half of American Adults Infected With HPV, Survey Finds -
By NICHOLAS BAKALARAPRIL 6, 2017
The report, published on Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, found
that certain high-risk strains of the virus infected 25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women.
This is a vaccine against cancer — that’s the message.”
She and her colleagues also found that 7.3 percent of Americans ages 18 to 69 were infected orally with HPV,
and 4 percent were infected with the high-risk strains that can cause cancers of the mouth and pharynx.
The prevalence of genital HPV infection was 21.6 percent among whites and 21.7 percent among Hispanics.
The figures released today were a snapshot of the prevalence of active oral HPV infection
from 2011 through 2014, and active genital infection in 2013 and 2014.