Many people infect their partners without meaning to. You may not know right away that you have an HPV infection or genital warts. Sometimes HPV lives in the skin without causing ANY warts or other skin changes that can be seen at all. Some people will develop visible growths or bumps in the genital area. These are visible genital warts.
Some people have tiny changes on the skin that can t be seen with the naked eye.
Some women to have abnormal cell changes on their cervix, which is found by a Pap smear. They have an abnormal Pap smear. HPV is a virus and there is no direct treatment for the virus. But warts or other cell changes caused by the virus can be treated. Most people never have a problem with HPV because their body s immune system keeps the virus from ever becoming a problem.