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A member asked:
Can someone with genital warts or hpv strains unknowingly transfer it to other household family members through bathroom hand drying towels or sharing pool towels? or any other contaminated surfaces?
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HPV generally spread via direct skin-to-skin contact. While nothing in medicine is “impossible” spread via forties very (very) unlikely
Answered 7/18/2021
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