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> Unless you plan to remain completely celibate You can get HPV without sex too. https://www.cdc.gov/sti/about/about-genital-hpv-infection.html https://www.cd

> Unless you plan to remain completely celibate You can get HPV without sex too. https://www.cdc.gov/sti/about/about-genital-hpv-infection.html https://www.cdc.gov/sti/about/about-genital-hpv-infection.ht... "HPV is most commonly spread during vaginal or anal sex. It also spreads through close skin-to-skin touching during sex" This focuses on sex, but any virus that can be found on skin, also has a chance to be transmitted without sex just as well. Admittedly the chance here for HPV infection is much higher with regard to sex, but not non-zero otherwise. The HeLa cells also contain a HPV virus in the genome, though this was probably transmitted via sex: "The cells are characterized to contain human papillomavirus 18 (HPV-18)" HPV-18. I think HPV-18 may in general be more prevalent than HPV-16.

downrightmike 9mo ago
Foot warts are HPV, like from the Gym locker room
- odie5533 9mo ago
  But they are not HPV16/18 and so not covered by this vaccine.
  - tiahura 9mo ago
    There is some clinical evidence of other strain effect. See pediatric dermatology article from a year or two ago.
  - throwwartsaway 9mo ago
    I successfully treated a persistent hand / feet / knee warts infection with 3 shots of Gardasil-9. The common warts are supposed to clear on their own within 2 years, but it was not the case for me. They all cleared out about a 1 year after the first shot, never to return. Including a deep plantar one that was completely immune to cryotherapy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772707624001577 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277270762...
- Qem 9mo ago
  Armpit skin tags also seem to be related to some HPV strains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_tag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_tag
NedF 9mo ago
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andsoitis 9mo ago
> also has a chance to be transmitted without sex just as well. Admittedly the chance here for HPV infection is much higher with regard to sex, but not non-zero otherwise So, NOT in fact “just as well”.

downrightmike 9mo ago

Foot warts are HPV, like from the Gym locker room

odie5533 9mo ago
But they are not HPV16/18 and so not covered by this vaccine.
- tiahura 9mo ago
  There is some clinical evidence of other strain effect. See pediatric dermatology article from a year or two ago.
- throwwartsaway 9mo ago
  I successfully treated a persistent hand / feet / knee warts infection with 3 shots of Gardasil-9. The common warts are supposed to clear on their own within 2 years, but it was not the case for me. They all cleared out about a 1 year after the first shot, never to return. Including a deep plantar one that was completely immune to cryotherapy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772707624001577 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277270762...
Qem 9mo ago
Armpit skin tags also seem to be related to some HPV strains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_tag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_tag

NedF 9mo ago

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andsoitis 9mo ago

> also has a chance to be transmitted without sex just as well. Admittedly the chance here for HPV infection is much higher with regard to sex, but not non-zero otherwise So, NOT in fact “just as well”.