More than half of all American teenagers are getting vaccinated against human papillomavirus, and the rate is rising over time, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sixty percent of adolescents received one or more doses of the HPV vaccine in 2016, an increase of 4 percentage points from 2015, researchers found. About a decade ago, the figure was less than 30 percent.
“We're really encouraged to see this finding,” said Shannon Stokley, a co-author of the report and associate director for science at the Immunization Services Division of the C.D.C.
