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Article: The sexually transmitted disease HPV is common and frequently harmless, but it.(The Orange County Register)
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- January 28, 2000
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Human papillomavirus.
Most people don't know what it is. Most people who have it don't know that they do. And they likely never will. They'll show no symptoms, feel no effects.
But millions of people have been infected by HPV, as the sexually transmitted disease is most commonly called. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that an estimated 75 percent of the reproductive-age population has been infected.
Young women are more susceptible because they are likely to have more sexual partners and, in the case of teens, their cervix is not fully matured. But at some point in their lives, research contends, up to 80 percent of ...