What is the difference between HPV and genital warts?
Question by Trixies Mama: What is the difference between HPV and genital warts?
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Answer by essentiallysolo
HPV (human papilloma virus) causes genital warts.
Answer by stephm9564
There are 2 types of HPV. High risk HPV and low risk HPV. Low risk HPV is the virus that causes genital warts. High risk HPV is the virus that causes pre-cancerous lesions on the cervix which can lead to cervical cancer. Basically, genital warts is a type of HPV
Answer by brt52670
Hpv causes genital warts but there are over 40 different strains of Hpv. Not all of them cause warts, 4 of the strains do.
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Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). The virus infects the skin and mucous membranes. There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of men and women, including the skin of the penis, vulva (area outside the vagina), and anus, and the linings of the vagina, cervix, and rectum. You cannot see HPV. Most people who become infected with HPV do not even know they have it.
HPV can cause visible changes that take the form of genital warts.
HPV is the virus that causes Genital warts.Not all strains of the virus cause some of them can cause cancer in both men and women.
HPV virus is the one that causes genital warts!
HPV virus has more than 130 different starins and ~40 of them causes genital warts! also some strains that causes genital warts also causes cervical cancer!
HPV causes genital warts. there are a number of websites which provide concise info about genital warts, eg http://www.genitalwartsinformationcenter.com