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HPV in the Gulf
May. 31st, 2008 12:02 amGyno-oncologists in today's Peninsula are recommending that all women protect themselves against cervical cancer by getting vaccinated.
Only halfway through does the article even say what the vaccination is actually against -- HPV, of course -- but then it just says vaguely that "women remain at risk of HPV infection and the related burden of disease throughout their lifetime" without telling the reader much about, say, how women get HPV. I suppose leaving that part vague is probably smart if they want lots of Qatari women to go get vaccinated, but I'm still amused that they can write such a long article about an STD without mentioning the S part.
In unrelated news, I got an official text message from the phone company today, telling me to go to the airport at 6 p.m. tomorrow if I want to welcome Sami Al Hajj back home. I guess this is likely to be an extremely big deal. Sami Al Hajj, in case he's less famous in the States than here, is the Al Jazeera journalist who's been held in Guantanamo for the last six and a half years.
Only halfway through does the article even say what the vaccination is actually against -- HPV, of course -- but then it just says vaguely that "women remain at risk of HPV infection and the related burden of disease throughout their lifetime" without telling the reader much about, say, how women get HPV. I suppose leaving that part vague is probably smart if they want lots of Qatari women to go get vaccinated, but I'm still amused that they can write such a long article about an STD without mentioning the S part.
In unrelated news, I got an official text message from the phone company today, telling me to go to the airport at 6 p.m. tomorrow if I want to welcome Sami Al Hajj back home. I guess this is likely to be an extremely big deal. Sami Al Hajj, in case he's less famous in the States than here, is the Al Jazeera journalist who's been held in Guantanamo for the last six and a half years.
