Is HPV positive virus a disease

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Aunt suddenly feel sick, severe abdominal pain. Later, I went to the hospital for examination, and the doctor said that I was infected with HPV. When I first heard this English, my aunt didn't know what disease she had. I only remember that the doctor asked her to have an operation, and later I learned that HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer. After the operation, aunt is now recovering very well, let's explore whether HPV positive virus is a disease.

Is HPV positive virus a disease

First: HPV refers to human papillomavirus, which belongs to a genus of papillomacavirus belonging to the family lactuloviridae. It is a spherical DNA virus and can cause the proliferation of squamous epithelium of human skin and mucosa. The symptoms were verruca vulgaris and genital warts (condyloma acuminatum). With the rapid increase of the incidence rate of condyloma acuminatum and the increase of cervical cancer and anal cancer in the sexually transmitted diseases, the infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) has attracted more and more attention.

Second: skin type HPV infection rate is very common, such as the above common verruca vulgaris, toe warts, flat warts, etc., can not get the specific infection rate, more attention is paid to high-risk HPV infection and low-risk HPV infection of external genitalia caused by genital warts and cervical cancer, according to statistics, in the global sexually transmitted diseases, HPV infection caused by genital warts accounted for 15-20%.

Third: HPV infection is not uncommon. 80% of women will have one infection in their life. Even if they are infected with HPV, there is nothing to be afraid of. This kind of infection is usually transient, and they will not bring great harm to the body. The virus is usually swept out of the house by the immune system within 8 to 12 months, up to two years. Only a small number of women with weak immune function are unable to eliminate HPV entering the body, resulting in persistent HPV infection.

matters needing attention

At present, there are preventive tetravalent vaccines (HPV6, 11, 16, 18) in the world to prevent these four types of virus infection, because most of the cervical cancer infection types are 16, 18, so it can reduce most of the cervical cancer, and some scientific research also shows that it has a certain protective effect on other types. But it doesn't work for people who are already infected. Circumcision of male redundant prepuce is an important measure to prevent female cervical cancer, and it is also an important measure to prevent men from infecting various kinds of sexually transmitted diseases. Circumcision of newborns and young children in some countries is a very good way to prevent HPV infection in adults and cervical cancer in spouses.