Joey suffers from a rare virus that can get into the cells of the voice box.
"He has a condition called recurrent papillomatosis," explained Dr. Steven Sobol, director of pediatric otolaryngology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. "It causes growths like warts that you would see in other parts of the body."
Sobol said lesions in RRP (for the condition's full name, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis) are caused by the human papilloma virus, or HPV, the same condition that causes cervical cancer.
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Sobol is hopeful that one day, a vaccine may be used to help prevent the development of the disease.
He said Gardasil, a series of three shots offered to adolescent girls for the prevention of cervical cancer, may be one of the drugs used to stop the spread of RRP.More at CNN...What a fantastic development for this little boy - and how great would it be if Gardasil can fight another nasty disease for us?
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