HPV and Genital Warts

Genital warts (condyloma) are small, fleshy growths that are found on the skin in the genital region. Most warts are painless, and many people don’t realize they have them. Occasionally, they spread and enlarge, looking like very tiny cauliflowers. The warts may be raised or reddened. Warts may sometimes also hurt or cause itching. They may grow on the large and small lips surrounding the vagina (vulva), around the anus, or on the urethra, cervix, vagina, rectum, bladder, penis, or scrotum. Genital warts vary greatly in size, color, shape, and texture, depending on where they are found.

BBC Reports Glaxo's Very Profitable HPV Vaccine Contract With UK

BBC story diagrams the corporate infighting over which multi-national Pharma Giant wins the very profitable HPV vaccine contract with the UK public health department. Glaxo needed a win big time. Merck has effectively shut them out of the lucrative American market, (the paper work has the FDA logo, but in the ‘Mercky’ world of vaccine politics, Merck lobbyists know how to deliver…a politician, regulator, or an agency, Merck Money moves opinion and decisions.) Merck won’t stop fighting to get a piece of the UK school girl market. Expect continuous stream of Merck public relations rhetoric throughout the balance of 2008 and up to the International Human Papilloma Virus Conference, held in Sweden next June. Both Merck and Glaxo are scheduled to deliver papers. In the Merck world view, “Its not over, until it is over.”