HPV infection among boys and men

Obviously, as a transmitable disease, the human papillomavirus infects both men and women.

Published results have previously only focused the consequences of HPV infection on women and cervical cancer. Now, an unpublished data revealed that 60 per cent of men between the ages of 18 and 70 are infected with HPV.

Compared that with 25 per cent of women between 14 to 59 revealed to be carrying the virus that causes cervical cancer.

China View reported that new data shows that HPV infection is quite common in men of all dates, while the highest rates on infection in women spike in the early 20s and again in their 40s to 50s.

“We know they (men) transmit it to women, but what is the rate of transmission?” says Anna Giuliano, a researcher at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., who is leading three government-funded studies on HPV infection in men. She is also a paid speaker for Merck, the maker of Gardasil.

With the recent published data on women, research is up to finding out just how infective this virus is on men as well. Worldwide, human papillomavirus infection in both men and women may be the cause of a variety of other genital cancers.

[source: ChinaView]

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