Calls for teenage boys to be vaccinated against sexually transmitted virus after throat cancer cases double

Source: Daily Mail

Boys must be immunised against the most common sexually transmitted virus, health experts have said.

The call comes after figures revealed an alarming rise in cancer linked to oral sex in young men.

Cases of throat cancer have more than doubled to more than 1,000 a year since the mid-1990s. Previously the figure had been stable for many years.

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