Expert: Timely HPV Vaccination Blocks Persistent High-Risk Infection

TREE NEWS update: At a press conference on disease prevention for the new school term, Zhu Lan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief physician at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, stated that over 200 HPV types have been found in humans. High-risk types like 16 and 18 can cause severe lesions if persistent infection occurs, while low-risk types like 6 and 11 mainly cause genital warts. Timely HPV vaccination can block persistent high-risk HPV infection.