Boys ‘should receive’ vaccine for cervical cancer virus

Government adviser says HPV causes 70% of cases and boys are key in passing disease

Updated: Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 17:54
Elaine Edwards
Doctors from the Department of Health and other authorities were before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to discuss the concerns of a parents’ group about the safety of the Gardasil vaccine. Photograph: Getty Images

Doctors from the Department of Health and other authorities were before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to discuss the concerns of a parents’ group about the safety of the Gardasil vaccine. Photograph: Getty Images

Teenage boys as well as girls should be given the vaccine that prevents a virus that causes 70 per cent of cervical cancers, a senior health policy adviser to the Government has said.

Doctors from the Department of Health, the National Immunisation Office and the health products regulator were before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to discuss the concerns of a parents’ group about the safety of the Gardasil vaccine.

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