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HPV Vaccine has halved cervical cancer rates

September marked ten years since the world’s first cancer vaccine, developed right here in Queensland, was administered in Australia. Developed by a research team led by Professor Ian Frazer and his colleague, the late Dr Jian Zhou, the human papillomaviruses (HPV) vaccine took about 16 years to create using genetic engineering. The HPV vaccine works…

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