Cases of genital warts in young men have declined significantly since the introduction of a national vaccination programme to protect women from the human papillomavirus (HPV), a study says.
The findings of the Australian study revealed a 28 per cent reduction in the number of heterosexual men diagnosed with genital warts since the vaccination program commenced in 2007.
Researchers reported nine per cent of the 112,083 new patients attending sexual health services between January 2004 and December 2009 had genital warts.
While the study found young heterosexual men were benefiting from young women having been vaccinated against HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18, they were still at risk of contracting the disease if they were exposed to women who had not been...
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