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A 28-year-old female 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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Dr. Arnold Lentnekanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
HPV generally spread via direct skin-to-skin contact. While nothing in medicine is “impossible” spread via forties very (very) unlikely
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Answered Jul 18, 2021
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Help.I'm extremely worried and crying so much.My mum touched my used pantyliner/disposal pad throwed it away for me when i accidently left in our bathroom.I have HPV, also genital warts.She touched it w/ bare hand on the centre pad.Can she infected??
Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 48 years experience
No: This germ is not passed randomly like staph or strep might be from simple contact. It is spread by direct contact from genital to genital skin. There... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
If a person with genital HPV and warts touches your hand after bathroom can you get HPV? If you use soap to wash is it enough?
Dr. J. Lawrence Dohananswered
Dermatology 59 years experience
Very unlikely: Transmission of this virus occurs after much more intimate contact.
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A 27-year-old male asked:
Do the strains of hpv that cause hand and feet warts put you at risk for penile, throat,or other cancers? I don't have Genital Warts FYI?
Dr. Hunter Handsfieldanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
This must be your fifth or sixth question (maybe more) along these lines and this specific question has been answered -- that IF what you have is wart... Read More
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Reviewed Oct 10, 2021
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A 27-year-old male asked:
Do genital warts strains of HPV affect or cause hand or feet warts? thought they were different strains? last answer confused me?
Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 51 years experience
The strains causing genital wart are different from the ones causing warts on hands.
Get HPV vaccine.
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Answered Oct 06, 2021
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Followup question. Do high risk strains of HPV cause cutaneous warts on top of feet and back of hands or is it low risk only? Different then Genital HPV? thanks?
Dr. Hunter Handsfieldanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
See answers to your previous questions. IF you have HPV, it's probably HPV1, which is a low risk type. Please no more questions about this. See a derm... Read More
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Answered Oct 05, 2021
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