25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, U.S. says

Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 07:56 in Health & Medicine

The CDC calls the rate 'very good' for a new vaccine such as Gardasil. Earlier data show, however, that only about 1% of Latina teens have received it. About a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday.

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