Can one still benefit from hpv vaccine?

[Hani125]

Hi there,

Hpv vaccine in market that prevents some strains of virus. I wanna ask if some one is already exposed some strain of virus lets say type 6,11 can he/she can still get the shots ,after getting rid of warts ? Will this be effective and prevent warts from reemerging , in sense consider your body didn't responded to hpv and it didn't created the antibodies, still you got rid of warts from freezing them of, so getting vaccine shots will simply mean that your immune system now have relevant antibodies so whenever new infection appears your body remembers that infection and release antibodies. Am i right or its the other way around?

Please help

[cineamoc]

There are cases that patients benefit from vaccine, it helps them clear persistent infections.

However it's not scientifically proven

It wouldn't hurt if you take the vaccine even though you already had that strain.

[Isle39]

Good question.  This thing about the vaccine gets me confused.  I understand it is offered to people between 9 and 26, but why can’t older adults have it? I think there would be a chance of not having caught the strains that it covers.