One in four girls getting the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer falsely believes it cuts the risk of contracting other sexually transmitted diseases.

The startling finding, published in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, raises fears the vaccine is encouraging girls to abandon safe sex.

Neither of the vaccines [Gardasil and Cervarix]  can prevent other sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea or HIV.

But in the study of 339 girls, who had an average age of 17, a significant group believed the HPV vaccine reduced their risk of contracting such diseases.

The girls were polled after their first of three HPV doses, with 60 per cent sexually experienced.

Nearly 24 per cent of the girls, aged between 13 and 21, believed they were less at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases after the vaccine.

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