Can Genital Warts be regarded as a Disaster? 

The genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus are also called genital human papillomavirus.

The condition is sexually transmitted and the infection affects the skin and mucous membranes in and around the genital areas of men and women.

The condition affects the penis, vulva, anus, and the linings of the vagina and cervix.

The genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus are not immediately seen and hence you don’t even know that you are infected till the warts appear, which is months or even years after the infection sets in.

Most people who are infected show little or no signs of any infection related symptoms or related health problems. The genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus sometimes cause genital warts in men and women and cervical cancer and other less common cancers in both genders.

It is important to know that the strain types of HPV that cause genital warts are not the same as the strain types that cause cancer.

Genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus are categorized. They are referred to as HPV types - low-risk and HPV types – high risk. While the former is wart causing in nature, the latter or high-risk are cancer causing in nature.

Statistics state that in 90% of the reported cases of people with genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus cases, the inherent immune system clears the HPV infection naturally.

This happens in the case of both, high-risk and low-risk HPV types. Genital warts are observed as small bumps or groups of them in the genital area. The genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus can be raised or flat and single or multiple.

They even vary in clusters, either small or large. The warts appear on the vulva, in or around the vagina or anus and on the cervix, penis, scrotum and groin.

Genital HPV is contracted via genital contact during vaginal and anal sex. The genital or venereal warts caused by the human papillomavirus HPV cause normal cells to turn abnormal and you cannot even see or feel these cell changes.

In most cases, the body fights the infection naturally, but in the case of high-risk HPV infection, it lingers for many years and turns abnormal cells into cancer, in due course of time.

Statistics and research reveals that nearly 10% of women with high-risk HPV develop long-lasting HPV infection that culminates in the onset of cervical cancer.

Much in the same way, when the high-risk HPV lingers and infects the cells of the penis, anus or vagina, it can cause cancer in those areas too.

These cancers may be less common than cervical cancer, but are not ruled out at all and are on record.