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Positive hpv, 1 year ago was negative, could i have contracted long time ago and been detected until now, or did i contracted it within last year?
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New acquisition: Once the HPV test shows antibodies to the virus it should remain so for your lifetime. You may not show any visible sites, but that's how the tests give us a timeline.There is always a possibility that an earlier test was falsely negative
Answered 11/29/2018
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