{"id":76674,"date":"2018-03-08T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/australia-is-set-to-become-the-first-country-to-completely-eliminate-one-type-of-cancer"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:14:21","slug":"australia-is-set-to-become-the-first-country-to-completely-eliminate-one-type-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/australia-is-set-to-become-the-first-country-to-completely-eliminate-one-type-of-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Australia Is Set to Become The First Country to Completely Eliminate One Type of Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australia-is-set-to-become-the-first-country-to-completely-eliminate-one-type-of-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The International Papillomavirus Society has announced that Australia could become the first country to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/mar\/04\/australia-could-become-first-country-to-eradicate-cervical-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminate cervical cancer entirely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, Australia\u2019s efforts to distribute a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-research-shows-that-this-hpv-vaccine-could-prevent-93-of-cervical-cancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine<\/a> for free in schools have been a resounding success.<\/p>\n<p>The sexually transmitted infection causes 99.9 percent of cases of cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/australia-eradication-human-papillomavirus-vaccine-scheme\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/australia-eradication-human-pap...ine-scheme<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Papillomavirus Society has announced that Australia could become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer entirely. According to a new study, Australia\u2019s efforts to distribute a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for free in schools have been a resounding success. The sexually transmitted infection causes 99.9 percent of cases of cervical cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76825,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions\/76825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}