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That is, indeed, an excellent site. Thanks, Little.
There are over 100 different HPV's. We have no idea what some of them do, if anything. There are four types associated, statistically, with cervical cancer. Whilst the most common form of transmission is sexual for many of them, they can be passed on through any skin to skin contact with an open lesion.
When HPV are contracted early in life, they are usually controlled by the youthful immune system and disappear from any clinical state within a year or so. As we age, our immune systems become weaker and the HPV is not fought off. The importance of the Gardasil series of inoculations is that they produce anti-bodies against those HPV that cause cervical cancer. These are recommended at a young age because so many women are exposed at first, or early, sexual contact - vaginal or oral.
By the age of fifty, well over half osf us have been exposed and are possible carriers.
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