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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A quarter of girls aged 13-17 in the United States received Merck & Co’s Gardasil vaccine last year to protect against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer, the U.S. government said on Thursday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided the first look at how many
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