Question 1

are all type of warts contagious?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Not warty looking skin lesions are contagious, e.g, seborrheic keratosis looks like a wart but is not contagious. Other types of warts are caused by HPV and are contagious.

Question 2

is there an injection for venereal warts?

Accepted Answer

HPV vaccine: There is a vaccine that prevents infection with the most common types of human papillomavirus (HPV), including the types that cause almost 90% of genital warts, it not already infected with those types. There is no injection to treat existing warts. (Interferon given intravenously has been used, but is not very effective and rarely used these days.)

Question 3

are hpv warts contagious?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Hpv is a sexually transmitted disease and are indeed quite contagious. In the United States and much of developed countries, hpv is actually the most commom std!

Question 4

warts on eyelid contagious?

Accepted Answer

Yes: All warts are contagious no matter where they are located as they are caused by hpv virus , need  repeated body contact to get infected, how ever due to many  sub varieties and  they have location fetish

Question 5

are the warts on my hand contagious?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Warts are caused by hpv (human papilloma virus), of which there are many different strains.  Since it is a virus, you can pass it on to others, and vice versa.

Question 6

are warts contagious?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Through skin to skin contact the virus (hpv) that causes warts can spread from one person to another. It can aslo be spread to mucous linings like in the mouth or vagina.

Question 7

if you freeze your warts are they still contagious?

Accepted Answer

Possibly...: The skin containing the wart virus is killed and shed eventually.  I, personally would consider them to be contagious until they are gone!

Question 8

i know this is going to seem like a really dumb, but if warts are contagious, how come you get get hundreds?

Accepted Answer

Warts are a virus: Warts are a contagious virus that will spread through the epidermis layer of your skin, thereby getting larger and moving into other surrounding areas.

Question 9

is hpv contagious after warts are gone?

Accepted Answer

Yes: there are many types of HPV and most people who have it never see warts.  So, some types of HPV would show up as warts, but virus lives deeper.

Question 10

following the freezing of a wart is it still contagious?

Accepted Answer

Maybe: if warts still present after liquid nitrogen treatment, it is contagious. Liquid nitrogen cannot kill the virus, it creates a separation between warts and skin underneath.

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