To mark HPV Awareness Day, the Oral Health Foundation outlines the risks and how to protect yourself against it.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) can lead to the development of oral warts, which may spread through kissing, particularly if there are open sores or cuts in the mouth. Kissing is more than a simple ...

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Sometimes, people with an oral HPV infection develop warts or lesions (sores) on their tongue. These growths, which tend to appear on the back or sides of the tongue and/or the surrounding mucous ...

It estimates that 25 to 35 per cent of mouth and throat cancers are associated ... was 90 per cent effective at reducing genital warts in males, and 77.5 per cent effective in reducing anal ...

From penile cancer to oropharyngeal cancer, know the health risks of HPV for men’s health. The expert emphasised on the need ...

You can get an STD by having vaginal sex (penis in the vagina), anal sex (penis in the rectum), or oral sex (penis in the ... when you have an outbreak. Warts may show up as bumpy growths on ...

Warts are noncancerous skin growths that occur ... such as the vagina and mouth. Symptoms of a yeast infection include the formation of a rash and localized itchiness. Some yeast infections ...

Beyond taking care of the skin in your vaginal area, possible treatments might include: Oral antibiotics (e.g ... (STIs), like herpes and genital warts, can also cause bumps that resemble ...

Some bacterial infections are mild and easy to treat with topical antibiotics, but other infections require an oral antibiotic or ... bumpy, or wart-like itching pain and tenderness skin that ...

Sometimes, people with an oral HPV infection develop warts or lesions (sores) on their tongue. These growths, which tend to appear on the back or sides of the tongue and/or the surrounding mucous ...

Some types of low-risk HPVs can cause warts “on or around the genitals, anus, mouth or throat.” (HPV can also spread via nonsexual skin-to-skin contact.) While many HPV infections resolve on their own ...