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Will My Partner Get Hpv If I Am Infected?
How Do You Get HPV?
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infection caused by direct, skin-to-skin contact by way of sexual intercourse or oral sex. Genital warts come from the same family of viruses as the common warts people get on their hands, but only genital warts are transmitted through sexual contact.
Genital warts, also called condyloma accuminatum, are found on the cervix of approximately one-third of women in their teens and early twenties. Your odds of being infected...
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