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A RESOLUTION encouraging efforts to protect individuals within King County from human papillomavirus-associated cancers and other conditions by improving human papillomavirus vaccination rates and increasing knowledge and acceptance of human papillomavirus vaccines among parents and adolescents.
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WHEREAS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly eighty million Americans, which is one in four, are currently infected with at least one type of human papillomavirus, and
WHEREAS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that human papillomavirus infections are responsible for an estimated thirty thousand seven hundred new cancer cases each year in the United States, and
WHEREAS, human papillomavirus is thought to be responsible for more than ninety percent of anal and cervical cancers, about seventy percent of vaginal and vulvar cancers and more than sixty percent of penile cancers, and
WHEREAS, the incidence of noncervical cancers associated with human papillomavirus is increasing, and
WHEREAS, in Washington state, the overall annual rate of all human papillomavirus-associated cancers is 11.2 per one hundred thousand persons, which equates to an average of two hundred thirty human papillomavirus-associated cancers diagnosed in King County annually, and
WHEREAS, in King County, American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic women have the highest rates of cervical cancer, followed by black, Asian/Pacific Islander and white women, and
WHEREAS, human papillomavirus vaccines are recommended by the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for males and females ages eleven to twelve, with "catch-up" doses for females up to age twenty-six and for males up to age twenty-one who were not vaccinated earlier in adolescence, and
WHEREAS, the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also recommends human papillomavirus vaccination for men age twenty-two through twenty-six years who have ...

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