Rob Dalton] So, how common are the health problems caused by HPV?
[Dr. Wharton] HPV is the main cause of cervical cancer in women. There’s about 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year in the United States and about 4,000 deaths in women each year in this country, due to cervical cancer. At any given time, about one in a hundred sexually active adults in the United States have genital warts, so this is really pretty common. [Rob Dalton] Dr. Wharton, what HPV vaccines are available in the U.S.? [Dr. Wharton] There are two brands of HPV vaccine licensed by the FDA in the United States that we recommend here at CDC. These two vaccines are Cervarix and Gardasil. Gardasil was licensed in 2006 and Cervarix was licensed in 2009. [Rob Dalton] So, how are the two vaccines actually similar? [Dr. Wharton] Both vaccines are very effective against the HPV types that cause most cervical cancers. So both vaccines prevent cervical cancer and the precancerous condition that precede it, in women. Both vaccines are very safe. And both vaccines cannot cause infect
