A Virus That Should Concern Women.

Millions of women are infected wish human papilomavirus (HPV) every year- considered the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. This infection is the primary risk factor in the development of cervical cancer. Human papilomavirus is responsible for warts in both men and women, including genital warts, called condyloma culminate. These are generally noncancerous.There over a hundred types of HPV, only a few can be carcinogenic, that is cancerous. It is only persistent infection with certain types of HPV That causes cervical cancer, most HPV infections disappear spontaneously, being overcome by the body's immune system. Risk Factors principally at risk are women who are sexually active early in life, who have multiple male sexual partners, or who are having intercourse with a male partner who has had multiple sexual partners. It is often a man with no outward symptoms who transmits the HPV infection to his mate. However, in some cases women who lead morally clean lives or perhaps have never engaged in sexual relations contract the infection. For example, some recent studies indicate that the virus can be transmitted at birth from mother to her child or that a person may be infected by a source other than the mother. The disease can become evident even many years after the person has been infected. Measures Women Wisely Take Women should have regular pap smears, they should eat a healthful diet. Such a diet would be rich in vegetables, fruit, and cereals. Some studies have suggested that consumption of carotenes, vitamins A, C, and E, and folic acid may reduce the risk of cervical cancer. - Awake