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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.

College Girls Say HPV Virus is Easy to Get

One-third of females who have only one sex partner are infected within the first year with HPV, and by the third year, half are infected, according to a survey from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Rachel Winer had 125 college women keep diaries and undergo gynecological examinations over a three-year period. Among the findings in her study was that the more partners a male had, the more likely he was to infect a woman, even she had only one partner.

The results of this study are similar to findings from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Researchers there found that 46% of girls got the infection even when they had only one partner.

There is a HPV vaccine given to girls ages 9 to 26 years old, and the Winer study suggests it should be given before females are sexually active.

"HPV is the common cold of sexually-transmitted infections," said Dr. Anne Burchell, an expert on HPV transmission at McGill University. "If you leave the house in winter, you're probably going to catch a cold. And HPV is like that. If you're sexually active, you're quite likely to get it at least at one point in your life."

The Washington study appears in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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