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 * __HPV Notes__**:


 * -Human Papaloma Virus**


 * What is it?**
 * -HPV is a STD
 * -Passed through anal or vaginal sex
 * -Also skin to skin contact
 * -50% of people who have had sex will have HPV will have it sometime in their lives


 * Symptoms**
 * -Usually people with it don't develop symptoms
 * -Some types can cause symptoms like genital warts
 * -Some can cause Cervical cancer
 * -There is a difference in the HPV's that can cause Cancer and warts


 * HPV is split into 2 types**
 * -Low and High risk
 * -90% of cases the body will naturally clear and rid the body of HPV within 2 years
 * -Low risk: Genital warts
 * -High Risk: Cervical cancer
 * * symptoms show when the cancer is spread and advanced more through the body


 * How does HPV cause genital warts?**
 * -Cause normal cells on infected skin or mucosis membranes to turn abnormal
 * -Most of the time you can't tell these sudden changes on the body
 * -Most cases the body fights off the infected cells and they then return to normal
 * -IF the body doesn't clear up the infected and abnormal cells over time then over even more time they will evolve into cancerous cells and become an advanced cancer
 * -10% of women will high risk HPV on their cervix CAN take on an infection that will eventually become cancer
 * -If high risk HPV lingers long enough on the genital area of the man and woman it can turn into cancer


 * How to prevent it?**
 * -Vaccine can protect females from the four types of HPV
 * *recommended for girls and women b/t the ages of 11-26
 * -Condoms can lower the risk of retracting HPV related diseases
 * -HPV can affect areas not protected by a condom
 * -Abstinence is the only fool proof way to protect yourself from HPV infection