My doctor said that 80% of the population have a form of HPV. Is she right? Please be honest and let me know if Yes you do, or No you don’t. I want to see if the numbers line up at all.
Thank you.
How Many People Really Have Hpv? — Taking A Poll.?
December 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
She is right because it can be contracted very easily by skin to skin contact and in most cases it has no noticeable symptom so further infection is very easy. It can remain with you for the rest of your life but in most cases it clears out of the body in 1-2 years if you have a healthy immune system.
Since it has no treatment for men(only symptomatic treatment for warts) they rarely consider it a real STD and “forget” to mention it to their partners.. or they simply don’t know about it, but HPV is a real threat to women because it is believed that HPV is the cause of cervical cancer in 90% of the cases.
So I say that your doctor is right.
Fortunately scientists already developed vaccines for women that are effective against the most dangerous HPV strains.
YES, at least . . .
Your question is really impossible to answer with a yes or no.
It’s at least 80%. If you include the non-STD forms of HPV, it’s probably just about 100%. Even if you only test for HPV that are considered STDs, several studies put the number above 90%. The difference in numbers comes from the fact that different studies test for different types of HPV. Some studies include more stains than others.
But that is the percentage of people who have ever had an HPV infection, not the percentage who are testing positive now. If you just include those testing positive at any given moment, it’s only about 25%.
That’s a little high. The last data put out by the American Cancer Society said that approximately 75% of adults in the United States will have HPV at some point in their lives. Other organizations put it closer to 80% contracting one form or another in a lifetime. In urban areas, 25-35% of individuals are currently infected. The CDC’s estimates are a little more conservative, around 20 million individuals currently infected – though they do not specify which types.
This is complicated by the fact that there are over 113 described types of HPV, several of these infect the skin, mouth arms, about 45 of them infect the genitals. Four of them are responsible for cervical cancer, and usually do not cause visible warts, about a half dozen others do cause visible warts and rarely if ever cause cervical cancer, and the vast majority of HPV strains are asymptomatic – most people never are aware they contract them. Barring the ones that cause high levels of genital warts, and the ones that cause cervical cancer tend to get cleared up by the immune system within six months to several years.
You can see how the picture gets pretty murky, pretty quickly.
You will never get a accurate answer here. You can be exposed to HPV as a child in nursery school. It is easy to get and your body will shed it at some point if you are healthy. It dose become an issue for women of child bearing age due to the risk of cervical cancer
The cancer causing strains are HSV 6,11,16,18 . At this point there are about 80 or so strains so as you can see mutations are a risk with multiple exposures. The numbers that the doctor is quoting come from the CDC.
Depends what you read. I’ve seen it from greater than 50% up to 80%.
See my article on HPV below..http://www.examiner.com/x-7707-Tampa-Dis…