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London Bankers Race Traders at Sea to Push Boys’ Cancer Jabs

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London financiers will swap suits for Lycra today as two teams race rowing boats from Barcelona to Ibiza in a campaign to include boys in vaccinations for a cancer-causing virus.

Bankers, commodities traders and one Olympic rower will brave searing heat and shipping lanes for three days in an effort to raise money and change public health policy on human papillomavirus. One aim of the 10-strong group is to lobby to change the U.K. vaccination program, which only treats girls.