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Genital Warts
Venereology & Sexual Health · Infectious & Parasitic
Mild
Severity
Very common — one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, with most sexually active people exposed to some HPV strain in their lifetime
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Genital warts are caused by infection with certain low-risk strains of the human papillomavirus
- 2primarily types 6 and 11
- 3transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact during vaginal
- 4anal
- 5or oral sexual activity with an infected partner. The virus can be transmitted even when no visible warts are present
- 6and a person can carry and transmit the virus for months to years before any warts appear or without ever developing visible symptoms. A weakened immune system can increase susceptibility to visible outbreaks and make clearance of the virus more difficult.
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