Two vaccines are effective in preventing sexually transmitted HPV infection, and researchers said the new data lend urgency to the drive to have adolescents vaccinated. Genital HPV Percentage of Americans age 18 to 59 infected with genital human papilloma virus. The figures released today were a snapshot of the prevalence of active oral HPV infection from 2011 through 2014, and active genital infection in 2013 and 2014. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThere were significant differences in rates of high-risk genital HPV infection by race and ethnicity, Dr. McQuillan and her colleagues found. The prevalence of genital HPV infection was 21.6 percent among whites and 21.7 percent among Hispanics.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2017 19:43 UTC