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Can my partner continue to infect me with hpv? i am in a strongly committed monogamous relationship and just found out today that i am hpv positive. while we both have had other partners in our lifetime, my pap last year was completely normal and clean (
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Some info: Some studies cite as many as 70% of college age woman show evidence of prior HPV infection.Unless you have a wart strain, you rarely know you carry it.(man or woman). Once infected with a single strain you become immune to re-infection by that strain but you can pass it to an uninfected partner. You can become infected by any of more than a dozen other strains.
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