My name is Christina and I was the girl to comment right above you. I just talked to my doctor about the questions you had and I will help you out with some of them. To your first question: No. After it becomes dormant, your body has developed an immunity. HPV is EXACTLY like the chicken pox. Everyone gets it (80% of the population) and there are several different strands of it. Once you get chicken pox, you have it for life, but your body creates an immunity to it. After you have had chicken pox, you can't get it again until you are introduced to a new stand of it, which is later in life and it is normally referred to as the "Shingles." And you cannot give someone chicken pox after it has gone away and you have developed an immunity to the virus. The only way you can spread HPV is if your body has not become immune to the virus or if your immune system gets low enough for the virus to come back and attack (i.e. AIDS or a serious case of pneumonia). So do not worry about that. However, it normally takes two or three years to go away.
No HPV cannot be spread by sitting on the toilet of someone who has HPV. The virus can't live outside of the human body for very long, and is only spread through skin to skin contact. The warts are the main thing you have to worry about. You can't spread warts by touching a toilet seat and then someone else sitting on it. It does not work that way.
It SOMETIMES infects the mouth. It is extremely rare. But I do not have enough information to answer that question. Personally I would not worry about it getting in your mouth. Highly unlikely. You have a better chance of getting cervical cancer and dying from it (which is only 11 people a YEAR) then to get HPV in your mouth.
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My name is Christina and I was the girl to comment right above you. I just talked to my doctor about the questions you had and I will help you out with some of them. To your first question: No. After it becomes dormant, your body has developed an immunity. HPV is EXACTLY like the chicken pox. Everyone gets it (80% of the population) and there are several different strands of it. Once you get chicken pox, you have it for life, but your body creates an immunity to it. After you have had chicken pox, you can't get it again until you are introduced to a new stand of it, which is later in life and it is normally referred to as the "Shingles." And you cannot give someone chicken pox after it has gone away and you have developed an immunity to the virus. The only way you can spread HPV is if your body has not become immune to the virus or if your immune system gets low enough for the virus to come back and attack (i.e. AIDS or a serious case of pneumonia). So do not worry about that. However, it normally takes two or three years to go away.
No HPV cannot be spread by sitting on the toilet of someone who has HPV. The virus can't live outside of the human body for very long, and is only spread through skin to skin contact. The warts are the main thing you have to worry about. You can't spread warts by touching a toilet seat and then someone else sitting on it. It does not work that way.
It SOMETIMES infects the mouth. It is extremely rare. But I do not have enough information to answer that question. Personally I would not worry about it getting in your mouth. Highly unlikely. You have a better chance of getting cervical cancer and dying from it (which is only 11 people a YEAR) then to get HPV in your mouth.
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