Australia is predicted to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer due to the effectiveness of a vaccine created by a Queensland researcher.
University of Queensland professor Ian Frazer created Gardasil, the vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus which causes 99.9% of cervical cancers.
Research recently published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the Human Papillomavirus rate has dropped from 22.7% to 1.1% during the past decade, meaning the cancer could soon be eliminated.