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A 37-year-old male asked:
How can someone with hpv-cervical cancer and get cold soars occasionally still transmitt through giving oral sex to able who does not have hpv?
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Dr. Carlos Satulovskyanswered
Psychiatry 30 years experience
Hpv is contagious: Hpv can be transmitted anyway; you should practice safe sex only to avoid the risk of passing the infections to thers, if you have the virus. Best wishes.
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Dr. Sathish Adigopulaanswered
Pediatrics 22 years experience
.: Hpv can transmit when affected person has active lesions. Sometime the active lesions may not be readily apparent.
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Dr. Phil Chenanswered
Family Medicine 28 years experience
Different disease: Cold sore could from herpes virus, not hpv. Oral sex could get both diseases if the disease is active.
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