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Originally Posted by little_tippler
Besides the uncomfortable and sometimes painul warts, in women, it can lead to cervical cancer (if you get a bad strain), and you can transmit it to your baby. This in turn can cause them a lifelong illness where they grow warts in their throat and need surgery regularly to remove them. ...snip...But the virus is still there, it never goes away....snip...
can it really be 75% of the world's population? sounds like a lot!
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I was re-reading this thread and noticed this comment that I had not paid close attention to before.
"Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own."
CDC
Genital HPV Does go away except in cases of immune suppressed individuals. With faithful treatment it does not usually spread or cause cancer either.
"Approximately 20 million people are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year." CDC
So it is QUITE a common infection. It is not uncommon for people to become infected and for the infection to go away before they even realize that they had it.
Rarely, a pregnant woman can pass HPV to her baby during vaginal delivery. A baby that is exposed to HPV only very rarely develops warts in the throat or voice box. The rate of infection according to CDC is no greater than 1.1 out of every 100,000. I realize that to that 1 or 2 children it does not matter. What I can find in reference to RRP (the respiratory infection which infants can aquire) is that this is as was mentioned in the quoted post, is that this is a lifetime infection that can turn dormant or can spread throughout the respiratory tract. It is a very good reason for a woman who intends to continue to bare children to avoid promisuous sex .