Myth of the fat dodo. The birdâs obesity, slowness and lack of intelligence are commonly given as reasons for its alleged evolutionary inferiority. Dodoes were for years considered not just large, but grossly overweightâto the point that they not only couldnât fly, but could hardly run from their enemies.
The HPV strains that Gardasil protects against are sexually transmitted. The vaccine was approved in the US on June 8, 2006 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2008, Gardasil was approved in 41 of U.S. states. The Gardasil vaccine has also been approved in 120 other countries.
The first time HPV was discovered was back in 1956 by a group of scientists. It was in 1984, when Harald zur Hausen discovered, cloned, and attributed cervical cancer to HPV 16 and 18.Throug his research, he has contributed to the production of the vaccines [6].HPV gets its name because certain strain causes warts, also known as papillomas [4].he HPV test on the other hand checks for the virus itself and is used with the pap in women 30 and older, especially if the pap has unclear results. [1, 3, 4, 5] The HPV test, like the pap, takes a sample of cervical cells, which is then hybridized with a specific HPV RNA probe cocktail.