How HPV causes cancer, and how we can stop it in its tracks

from Microbial Mondays · host Merel Sijbranda and Alex Cloherty

In the last years, especially when the first HPV vaccine came out in 2006, we have heard a lot of commotion around this HPV vaccine and HPV’s link to cancer. In today’s episode, we share the story of how scientists discovered the link between HPV and cancer, and how the HPV vaccine works.

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