hpv
...’t see them. There are over one million new cases per year in the United States. HPV is considered to be the most common STD. HPV is caused by having sex or touching the genitals of someone who already has the infection. Rarely, people can be born with the infection or children can get it while being bathed or changed. The virus is highly contagious it is simply transmitted through skin to skin contact. Yet, the chance that one who had warts, which disappeared, will spread the virus after many years is low. The warts may appear after the infection from an interval of several weeks up to many months. The most common possibility is that the warts will not appear at all. HPV has few but dreadful symptoms. The most common of course is genital warts. This symptom attacks both male and female. Luckily, only 1 % of people who have HPV will exhibit the warts. On females however, HPV may cause cervical cancer which certainly is deadly. Unfortunately, no treatment can kill the virus that causes the warts. Your doctor can remove the warts with laser therapy or freezing or applying chemicals. Surgery may be necessary for warts that are large or difficult to treat. Still, the fact that the warts may occur again is a problem. Frequent visits to the doctor may be needed. The HPV, if located at the cervix might cause there a cancer. A cancer that is caused by HPV is a result of the changes that the HPV is performing in the infected cells. In the majority of the cases, those changes are retu...