Genital Warts

Most of the time, HPV goes away on its own and does not cause any health problems, but if it does not go away, it can cause health problems like genital warts and cancer. Genital warts appear as bumps or clusters of fleshy outgrowths around the anus or on the genitals. Genital warts usually appear within weeks or months after sexual contact with an infected person. If genital warts are left untreated they sometimes go away, remain unchanged, or increase in size or number but they do not turn into cancer. If a person is infected with a high risk strain of HPV it can cause cancer of the mouth and throat as well as cancers of the anal area and the male and female genitals. It usually takes years for cancer to develop in an infected person. In