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Reply To: Does treating the warts reduce the chance of passing HPV on?

paper_lantern 2 months ago

Somewhere in between, and the honest answer is that it is not fully settled.

Removing visible warts reduces the amount of virus present at the surface, which plausibly lowers transmission. What it does not do is clear HPV from the surrounding skin, so it does not make you non transmissible.

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