Genital Human Papillomavirus

I’m sure you are familiar with genital human papillomavirus or called as HPV; it is a known sexually transmitted disease/virus around the world, for both men and women. This virus is common in North America, in fact, there are millions of people have been infected by this virus; over 20 million people in United States are being infected and 6.2 million continuously get infected yearly. HPV could only spread through sexual contact, this disease mostly don’t cause any symptoms. Scientifically, HPV virus can cause cervical cancer to every woman who gets infected. In United States there is over 10,000 women get cervical cancer each year and 3,700 die from it; this is a second leading cause of cancer deaths in women around the world today.

However there are also called less common types of cancer cause from HPV virus; it can cause genital warts and warts in the upper respiratory tract. Everybody must be aware, pay attention, and be careful on this sexually transmitted virus; there is no treatment in HPV.