About 2,000 cases of pediatric RRP are reported each year in the U.S., almost all of them caused by the HPV 6 and HPV 11 strains.
The children at greatest risk are the firstborn children of young women who have genital warts during delivery. Still, the disease occurs in only about 0.5 percent of children whose mothers have condylomata during their pregnancies.
Two HPV vaccines, one developed by Merck and one by GlaxoSmithKline, have been approved for prevention of cervical cancer.
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