Are Genital Herpes the reason why HPV is cause? Is HPV an advanced form of genital herpes? What is the relation between Herpes and HPV? I have seen many people asking such a question. A simple explanation is that both are completely different diseases. Both diseases are sexually transmitted but no other similarities exist. Some people get confused with the tow diseases due to their nature of growth and transmission.
Genital Herpes are caused by the Herpes virus. HPV is given to a group of viruses that are more than 100 in number. Human Papilloma virus is the full name for HPV. Some types of these viruses cause only ordinary warts. Some can cause Cervical cancer and genital warts symptoms. HPV is not a disease by itself.
The only common factor or similarity between these two diseases, both are transmitted sexually and are incurable. Blisters are caused in Genital Herpes whereas HPV causes genital warts near the genitals.
Another resembling factor is that people who show no symptoms may transmit both. People who get affected like these are called silent carriers. They can contaminate their partners with the diseases. People may not be aware of the infection in themselves sometimes.
People may misdiagnose a blister caused by Genital Herpes as a boil or a pimple. Anyways the symptom vanishes after a while. In the case of HPV, the symptoms do not disappear. We have to remove them instead.
I hope that the above note will clear whatever confusion any of you may be having about HPV and Genital Herpes. To repeat, both are as different as cheese and chalk.
The confusion between HPV and Genital Herpes may be cleared from the above note. To repeat, they are as different as chalk and cheese.
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