Gay men seek 'female cancer' jab
Homosexual men are requesting a controversial "sex disease" vaccine designed to prevent a female cancer.
Gardasil protects against the most common of sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer.
But HPV also causes genital warts and anal and penile cancer, and men argue the jab would guard against these.Many private clinics are offering it to men. One in London says it has immunised dozens in the last six weeks.
The story continues, but what amuses me is the accompanying photo. It seems they didn't have any images linked to the story, or anything generally appropriate, so they just ran a file photo of one man handing a condom to another with the caption "Condoms are not guaranteed to stop HPV transmission." I think that is really reaching for the sake of an accompanying image and the article would have been best left text-only.
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