Posted on 06/03/2007 8:12:53 PM PDT by pattyam
... human papilloma virus is only one sexually transmitted disease. There is no vaccine for herpes, Hepatitis C, HIV. ... Unfortunately, sexual contact is not necessary for the transmission of cancer-causing HPV. ...
Hand-to-hand contact can transmit cancer-causing HPV. . ... However, cancer-causing strains of HPV, including strains 16 and 18, can also be found on the hands and fingers. Squamous cell carcinoma of the finger is almost exclusively caused by HPV strains 16 and 18 ...
I have treated several patients that had persistent warts on their hands or fingers caused by cancer-causing strains of HPV. I have seen several women with cancer-causing strains of HPV warts on the fingers that also had atypical Pap smears of the cervix. Since most warts on the hands and fingers are treated without biopsies or special testing to see which HPV strain caused the warts, we don't know what percentage of "ordinary"-appearing warts on the hands are caused by cancer-causing strains of HPV. ...
Perhaps it is unfortunate that Gardasil is marketed solely as a prevention of cervical cancer. ... HPV strains 16 and 18 can cause cancer of the esophagus, mouth, throat, larynx, tongue, tonsils, rectum, uncircumcised penis and skin. ...
... One should try to avoid touching another person's HPV-infected skin, be it on their genitals or fingers ... Not all HPV-infected skin produces a visible wart. Vaccination therefore is important because it can prevent an infection that you or the person you are touching is unaware that they have.
... practicing dermatology for more than two decades, both in private practice and as a New York University School of Medicine faculty member teaching at Bellevue Hospital, ... Viruses are apolitical, and so must we be in preventing the cancers they cause. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nyjournalnews.com ...
The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Herpes, Chlamydia, and Gonorreha can be transferred to the eye with Herpes and HPV also being found in the nose i.e. sinonasal inverted papilloma. Tested HPV types found in the sinonasal IPs are, "HPV 6/11-positive was present in 41% & HPV 16/18-positive was present in 31%."
1 in 300 with Chlamydia also have it in the eye.
"According to data published in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology, herpes simplex keratitis affects up to 500,000 people in the United States. Each year, ocular herpes simplex virus is estimated to affect approximately 50,000 people in the United States, arising as acute primary disease in 20,000 people and as recurrent disease in an additional 28,000." are samples of statistics found while searching the web.
Use terms like "HPV +ocular OR eye" also "manual-genital" or hand-to-eye.
At a minimum, we all need to wash our hands with soap and water after touching any possible STD sore. That can happen when "feeling up" or putting on or taking off a condom or when using the bathroom. Shouldn't that be basic 'safer sex' and health information as Doctors do wash their hands before and after touching a patient don't they? IMHO washing hands is much cheaper than the cost of the HPV vaccine and it will protect from so much more. This is not a sign of fear so much as a detour sign.
Hand Saniter manufactures say that eye contact may cause irritation and to flush the eye with water for 15 minutes if such contact happens.
Our idiot Gov. Rick Perry tried to push this garbage down our throats here in Texas and we slapped him good.
Good, ‘cause he had it coming.
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