Question about the Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine (Guardasil)!?!

Question about the Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine (Guardasil)!?

Hi! Bear with me for a second on this....


1. Human papilloma virus (HPV) is defined as family of viruses that causes hand warts, foot warts, flat warts and genital warts.
2. Guardasil is a "cervical cancer vaccine," but in reality, it just protects against HPV, since HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer.

This leads me to ask: Would the Guardasil vaccine protect against warts on the hands and feet too, since they're all caused by the same virus (HPV) as genital warts?

Thanks!

P.S. I'm not covered in warts, just so you know, lol.... I was just watching a commercial about Guardasil and this question popped into my head!

There are over 120 different "kinds" or "types" of HPV. Gardasil only protects against 4 of those different kinds, not ALL kinds of HPV.

Each type of HPV is responsible for one thing. So, for example, type 6 is responsible for genital warts and only genital warts. It won't cause cervical cancer or other kinds of warts.

Gardasil protects against HPV types 16 and 18 which cause 70% of cervical cancer cases, and HPV types 6 and 11 which cause 90% of genital warts cases.

Hope that answered your questions!