Many
women worry about becoming infected with HPV again after they have had
treatment for abnormal cervical cells. Viruses are difficult to treat and your
body gets rid of them by developing immunity to them. This may take from a few
months to a few years.
Some
women worry about whether their partner has the virus and could reinfect them.
Men aren’t routinely tested for HPV because the only way for a man to find out
if he has the virus is to have several biopsies. Even then, a negative result
only means that HPV wasn’t found on those biopsies and not necessarily that he
doesn’t have HPV at all. Our bodies clear the virus. So, even if a man has the
virus when he is tested, his immune system may get rid of it before the test
result comes back.
As
there are more than 100 types of HPV, it is possible to be immune to one type
but not another. So it may seem that you have been reinfected but in fact you
may just have a different type of HPV.
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