Are you asking: “How Did I Get Genital Warts?”. If you are sexually active you are at risk of contracting genital warts. Unfortunately, the virus that causes these warts is a tricky one. This virus is referred to as HPV (Human Papillomavirus). You can contract HPV without having unprotected intercourse. The virus is actually transmitted via skin to skin contact. This means that if the skin in your “area” touches the skin in your partners “area”, you are at a risk of contracting HPV if they have it.
Here is where it all gets confusing, there are people that carry the strains of HPV that cause warts on the genitals but these people never actually get any warts. These lucky (or not so lucky) people are asymptomatic. This means that they carry the disease, but because they show no symptoms, they might never know that they have it.
Chances are that if you are reading this article you are not asymptomatic and you have grown a few nasty little lumps on your genital area.
Because of the fact that some people can be asymptomatic, this means that there is only one way to completely prevent yourself from contracting genital warts. This is way is to practice abstinence. Although it is highly unlikely that that will be an option!
Genital warts is becoming quite an epidemic in the US. It has been estimated that there are over 1 million new cases diagnosed each year. Although warts of the genital variety are not life threatening, there is another form of HPV that is just as easily passed on and this form of the virus can cause cervical cancer in women.
For this reason, there recently has been a vaccine released onto the market for women. This vaccine is called Gardasil. Gardasil prevents women from contracting 4 strains of HPV. 2 of these strains of HPV can cause cervical cancer and the other 2 cause 90% of the cases of genital warts.
I highly recommend any woman under the age of 26 gets this vaccination.
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Genital Warts & Other Effects of HPV
