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To: Alter Kaker

Is it true that a wart on your hand or foot is HPV? That's what I've read in the last year. If regular warts are examples of HPV, then my five-year-old has been infected with HPV. Is she going to contract cervical cancer as a result?


70 posted on 02/07/2007 8:18:02 AM PST by petitfour
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To: petitfour
That's what I've read in the last year. If regular warts are examples of HPV, then my five-year-old has been infected with HPV. Is she going to contract cervical cancer as a result?

It may well be HPV (which is generally responsible for persistent skin warts), but the strains responsible for warts are not generally the strains that cause cervical cancer so your daughter should be fine. Of course a word of caution: I'm not a medical doctor nor do I play one on tv.

71 posted on 02/07/2007 8:25:23 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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