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What causes a women to get hpv? can she give it to her partner if she has it?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

HPV is in all of us: Hpv is transmitted skin to skin and semen to skin. It is thought that americans are exposed to one of the numerous strains of this virus by the time we are 26. There is a vaccine to prevent the four strains of hpv that can cause cancer 95% of the time. This is known as gardisil. There is some evidence that gardisil also provides some protection against other hpv strains.

Answered 4/10/2013

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