A University of Minnesota survey shows less than half (48 percent) of parents who share this view support the use of the vaccine. Overall, however, 87 percent of Minnesotans surveyed support the vaccine use. The survey findings were published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The vaccine to immunize young women against the human papillomavirus, a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, has not received the warm welcome public health advocates had hoped for.