What is the difference between warts on your hands and the warts on your genitals caused by HPV?
Friday, July 30th, 2010 at
9:53 pm
I know that HPV causes genital warts, but can the genital warts be found anywhere else on the body besides the anus and mouth/throat? I also know that warts come from a variety of viruses, but if you have warts on your genitals, are they automatically caused from HPV, or are they tested for another viral strain? Does HPV strains include any wart that can be found in the genital area?
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One common property of all papilloma viruses is that they are supposed to cause odd or excessive growth of epithelial tissue. In some cases this means warts. In other cases, it means cancer.
There are hundreds of strains of human papilloma viruses. Some affect the skin on the hands and feet. Some affect the genitals.
If you have genital warts, it is generally acknowledged to be some form of HPV because as I said earlier, papilloma viruses cause warts and epithelial cancers. The very origin of the term "papilloma" referred to warts (though if you must get into etymology, it’s from a word for "butterfly").
Completely different. They are as different as horse carts and grocery carts.
I’m pretty sure warts in general are caused by different strains of the HPV virus, genital warts is caused by specific strains as well. Genital warts dont do anything but spread and look gross, they dont cause any negative side effects, just like normal ones dont. But you still dont want to get them.