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Chang Yan has always been afraid of needles. Yet the 22-year-old college student has now joined the masses of young Chinese women getting injected with a new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, one of the most common types among females in China.

"I decided to get vaccinated after my mother repeatedly urged me too," Chang said.