Genital Warts Treatment
Like many viral infections, human papillomavirus (HPV) is a permanent infection. A person with human papillomavirus (HPV) may be highly infectious at times, especially when genital warts are oozing, broken or bleeding. At other times, the human papillomavirus (HPV) may enter a dormant or latent phase in which the risk of transmission to other people is nearly zero. Despite this ebb and flow of the disease, genital warts are considered a lifelong, chronic infection, once they occur.
The main reason that human papillomavirus (HPV) is so difficult to rid from the body, is that it collects in various “reservoirs” within the body. Traces of human papillomavirus DNA has been found in the prostate,1 vas deferens (the tubes through which semen moves away from the testicles),2 nearly invisible lesions on the penis,3 vulva,4 and even pubic hair follicles and follicles of hair around the anus.5 Therefore it is essentially impossible to eradicate the virus once it takes hold.
