And did you know that males who carry the high-risk strains can't even be tested for it? They wouldn't even know it. And a female wouldn't know if she had it (high-risk strain, that is) unless she got a "bad pap" (which is not a given). She could have it and it not develop into anything, and then she could pass it to a guy who couldn't possibly know he had it, and then he passes it along...That's why so many people have it.
The fortunate thing is that even if a female gets a high-risk strain and it develops enough to cause an abnormal pap, Chances are low that it would be malignant, and even if it was malignant, it would take a lot of time and complete lack of care to get dangerous. There are fairly easy procedures that can be done to remove the cancerous cells, and then it's just a matter of having paps twice as often to monitor the situation.
If I understand correctly, HPV is one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, yearly paps are de rigour for annual physicals.
And a vaccine against it would be great, I wonder how long it will take to become part of easily available health care? Hopefully not long.
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