Friday May 4 The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is an infection that typically shows up on one pap smear and is gone by the next without any threat to a woman s health but researchers are finding that the infection tends to last longer in college-aged black women and this lingering could lead to ...

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Title: HPV Infection Lasts Longer in Young Black Women: Study Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2012 10:05:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2012 12:00:00 AM

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CHICAGO Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and ...