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TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Human papillomavirus (HPV) is generally associated with diseases that affect women.
In fact, the HPV virus can not only cause cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancer in women, but can also cause anal cancer and genital warts in men.
As many as 40 percent of those aged 15-59 years have experienced this infection and about 8 out of 10 men and women are expected to be infected with HPV during their lifetime.
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This virus can attack anyone, both women and men.
The HPV virus is one of the common viruses that can cause sexually transmitted infections because the transmission of the HPV virus generally occurs through sexual contact or close skin-to-skin touching.
WHO (World Health Organization) estimates that around 99 percent of cervical cancer cases are related to genital HPV infection and in Indonesia, cervical cancer ranks second with 36,633 cases or 9.2 percent of total cancer cases.
In addition to cancer, this virus can cause warts on various parts of the body.
The HPV virus lives on skin cells and has more than 100 types.
There are about 60 types of HPV that cause warts which generally infect parts of the body such as the feet and hands, while 40 of them trigger the appearance of genital warts.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America or the CDC, an estimated 340-360 thousand men and women are exposed to HPV that causes genital warts each year.
In Indonesia, genital warts are included in the third most common sexually transmitted infections.
Not only contagious, genital warts even have an impact on the psychosocial sufferers.
Diseases caused by HPV infection can be prevented through vaccination.
This article is part of Parapuan
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2023-09-07 11:01:36
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