Transmitted by- Skin-to-skin genital contact with warts.
- Mother to infant at birth.
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Symptoms- Often no visible signs or symptoms.
- May occur with and without genital warts.
- Warts on or in the genitals, anus, or thighs.
- Warts or lesions on the cervix detected by a pap smear.
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Prevalence | 5.5 million people are affected by HPV each year. |
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Treatment- Genital warts or cervical warts/lesions from HPV can be removed with liquid nitrogen, laser, or surgery.
- Removing warts does not necessarily remove the human papillomavirus underlying them (think of warts as the symptoms of the virus).
- There is no cure for the virus, and even treated warts can recur.
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w/o Treatment- You can give it to your sexual partner(s).
- Warts can often be removed, but sometimes they do return.
- HPV, the virus causing the warts, cannot ever be cured.
- A mother can give warts to her baby during childbirth.
- It is now assumed by the medical establishment that certain types of HPV are strongly linked to cervical cancer (A comprehensive 1993 World Health Organization Study revealed that 93% of women with cervical cancer also had HPV.)
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