Why has the government NOT told anyone about this?
I NEVER learned about how THIS MANY people have it in health class which I took about two years ago in high school.
Are they trying to keep it a secret?
This HAS to be a human made virus for humans, what other virus can be passed down selectively through males?
Yes thats right, I read that this can be passed down to males only.
REAL viruses that are created by nature ARE NOT selective about who they infect.
Although they do not harm males, it is a way of spreading itself.
THIS IS WORST THAN AIDS.
More people in the USA have HPV compared to HIV/AIDS
No it may not kill as many but still, there is no cure and more people are infected with it.
About 10,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, and 3,700 women die from it.
Researchers found that among females 14 to 24 years of age, 34 percent were infected with HPV. That suggests 7.5 million teens and young women infected nationwide -- much more than the 4.6 million in previous estimates.
http://abcnews.go.com/health/cancerpreve...
ONE MORE THING, .......... just someone tell me WHY the HELL do people NOT use CONDOMS?
Are they stupid? roughly half of men were infected with HPV
HOW do you get HALF of the entire nation or world infected with a virus?
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNew...
And one that is only passed genetically to males but NOT females?
THE GOVERNMENT! * Epidemology of STDs has changed recently with the emergence of new viral infections and increased incidence of others. People with one STD are likely to become coinfected. (eg. Chlamydia & gonorrhea; herpes simplex & HPV)
* Bacterial STDs are curable; viral STDs are not.
* Women are more vulnerable to infection by STDs and the consequences are greater. (Infertility, life threatening pregnancies, fetal death, cancer) Children suffer birth defects and new born blindness.
* STDs among gay people are increasing.
* Avoid sex with an infected person and commercial sex workers. Safer sex means reducing the number of sexual contacts and using condoms to help prevent infection with each contact.(for barrier protection)
* Stay faithful to your partner, instead of increased multi-partnered sex.
* Do not reuse needles & syringes.
* Diseases spread by sexual contact are difficult to control. Many people do not like to talk about them. There is a sense of shame and guilt.
* Lack of physician & patient contact. Even when people suspect that they have a disease acquired by sexual contact, they may not go to a health professional or health center to get proper diagnosis and treatment if necessary.
* Inadequate funding by state governments.
* Susceptibility to reinfection with the same organism if both partners are not treated simultaneously.
* Development of drug-resistant organism.
* Increased international travel.
* Many of the infected people may go to quacks or try self remedies. There is still a risk in getting HPV if you use condom, there are no signs in having it and men are generally carriers. Women get the shitty end (cervical/ovarian cancer). If you havent had it before go get vaccinated. WTF??? YOU'RE STUPID... if no nature causing disease is "selective" then why is it mainly men colorblind? and some people with hpv never knows because it can be dormat... men and women can get it and there is many strains... just use condoms but ur dumb They do but there is always a chance that they break. ho ho ho Yes stupid and drunk Keep in mind that there are many strains of HPV. A few of those strains can cause cervical cancer. A few different strains cause genital warts. I believe that most of the strains are mainly benign infections.
I also was surprised that we never learned about the cervical cancer link in high school. While it may not have been common knowledge when I took health 10 years ago, it surely was common knowledge when you took it two years ago. It's not really a matter of keeping it a secret. It's more a matter of teachers teaching a set curriculum, perhaps a state mandated or district mandated one that says HPV is genital warts and leaves it at that. Or perhaps the teacher wrote the lesson plans many years ago and never updated them.
While it is noble to suggest condom use, in this case it is pointless to bring up. HPV is spread via skin-to-skin contact, even if a condom is worn. HPV is actually the sole (legitimate, anyway) reason why abstinence programs can say that condoms are ineffective against ALL STDs.
Also, people aren't stupid for getting an STD. What about someone who is in a monogamous relationship and chooses to not wear a condom, but their partner cheats on them and gets them infected with an STD? Is that person stupid? What about young women who get raped, or who are naive and get pressured by their boyfriend into condomless sex?
I'm not sure what you are getting at with HPV being "passed down selectively through males." Source? The fact that 34% of young women have HPV shows that this virus is NOT selective.
The government lost millions of dollars (as well as thousands of weapons) in Iraq. Just lost it. The government has no idea where most of last year's $700 billion bailout actually went, because no one was keeping track. Do you really think this kind of government is capable of mass conspiracy involving created viruses?
With all of this government doom and gloom, you are forgetting that cervical cancer can be caught and treated early if women get regular pap smears.
Sigh. Condoms don't protect you against HPV. There is now a vaccine that protects you from HPV. If you can wrap your head around the logistics of quarantining half of the youth population, and giving out vaccines to young people, what makes more sense?
Condoms are great at preventing STDs that are spread via sexual fluids, like AIDS. For that reason alone, they are worth wearing. Condoms do not protect against any kind of infection that a condom doesn't actually cover. Like HPV on the base of a man's penis. I'm going to answer part of it. I have HPV, and yes we did use a condom. I am a female and condoms do not protect enough. I do not have it inside me it is on the outside only where condoms could not cover. I've been lucky to only have two very small out breaks. From the point of learning that I do have it I have felt very strongly about telling others that I have it early on so it is their choice to be with me and not forcing the possibility of a disease on another without their knowledge. I have not passed it on to any others with the exception of my current husband. That was 5 years after being together and only 1 small outbreak and got it taken care of quickly. Some that have the virus may only have 1 outbreak in their life and others get more often no matter how well they take care of it and go to the doctors. Unfortunately, 5 years after I was infected with it they came out with a vaccination for it. I would encourage everyone to get it! A few shots is much easier then the treatments that maybe done and help from spreading it further. It spreads so fast because it is very easy to pass to another and it will keep spreading just for the basic fact that people are horny and don't think about the consequences of what they are doing. It's not a secret. I've seen articles on this all over the place (in print magazines, etc., some of us still read on paper) and I've seen the poster about HPV in at least two doctor's offices.
I have no idea what you think the government should be doing about this--it's being handled just fine by the medical profession, who has published several studies and made public announcements recommending the vaccine that have appeared in the press. Let's keep those jokers in DC out of our lives as much as possible, OK? They aren't medical professionals, except maybe the Surgeon General.
My dentist even suggested I have my daughter get the vaccine (she is 17 so she can decide herself) because in addition to cervical cancer, the same virus causes oral cancer.
Oh in answer to your last questions, Most Definitely Yes. For more reasons to pull out your hair, go peruse through the Pregnancy category and see just how many idiots each day post, "I just had unprotected sex! Could I get pregnant?"
Read up on viruses. It's a fascinating subject. I don't think the government had anything to do with it--I think it's all just Darwin. The idiots are weeding themselves out. |
