Perhaps the most important point for information about the symptoms of HPV is the fact that in many cases they do not!

Both men and women can perform one of the strains of HPV that causes genital warts, or worse, cervical cancer, but there are no signs or symptoms at all. However, they may be pursuing an active sex life and unwittingly transmitting the virus than one sexual partner after another.

In fact, the most common strains of HPV that have been associated with cervical cancer are least likely to show any symptoms for many years. Between 3000 and 4000 women die annually from cervical cancer, which is often treatable if caught early. Medical researchers believe that this number is so high because most women do not know they have cervical cancer until it’s too late.

Remember that every time you have sex with a new partner, you have sex with all partners, they are in front of you and all partners, these partners have been … infinity.

So, before you swear to have sex throughout your life, let’s look at some of the misunderstandings and myths surrounding HPV.

Truth About HPV

* About 250 individual strains of HPV have been identified, but few of them lead to the most problematic health conditions - genital warts in both men and women, and cervical cancer in women.

* Genital HPV is only transmitted sexually, or in very few cases, through oral sex with a partner who is already infected. NOT catch HPV from the toilet or sit where someone else who had HPV meeting.

* If you find you have genital warts, it does not necessarily mean that your current sexual partner is one who has given you. In most cases, strains of HPV that cause genital warts can lie dormant in your system for many years, before going on break.

More realistic scenario is that you’re the one who was unwittingly transmitted genital warts to your sexual partner while you were blissfully unaware of its existence, and at some future time they will blame their current partner for the transmission of the virus when in fact, it was you.

* Contracting HPV does not mean promiscuous. You need only one sexual contact with an infected with the virus. Obviously, the more you participate in frequent and unsafe sexual practices, the greater the chance that you will eventually come into contact with HPV, or any number of other sexually transmitted diseases.

Thus, the logical solution is to always practice safe sex, especially if you have a new sexual partner. Not only latex condoms prevent you from symptoms of human papilloma virus and other sexually transmitted diseases, it will help you avoid unwanted pregnancy.

* HPV treatment for genital warts are not a panacea. Even if the warts are gone, you still have the virus, which means that you can infect a sexual partner at any stage, now or in the future.

* The HPV vaccine is believed to prevent all recognized strains of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer in women. However, this does not guarantee the prevention of cervical cancer in girls and women who were sexually active before vaccination.

* The jury is about the uncircumcised men are more often carriers of the virus. Although a number of studies, production statistics, which offer partners uncircumcised men are at greater risk of infection by strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer, many doctors consider imperfect statistics.

Everyone is at risk of becoming victims of human papillomavirus and displaying symptoms of HPV. The most effective way to protect yourself by practicing safe sex and knowledge and understanding as possible about HPV, HPV symptoms and treatment of HPV.