daup h i n cm s .org .org Features Not Only About Sex: Let's Get Serious and Smart About HPV and Vaccination By VIRGINIA E. HALL, MD, FACOG, FACP, FCPP 16 Fall 2019 Central PA Medicine S o, you thought human papilloma virus (HPV) was only about sex or cervical cancer in women? Well, it isn't! Did you know that there are over 200 types of HPV? Only some have to do with sexual transmission and cancer. Typical of the nonsexual transmission are types that cause the common wart and plantar warts. The HPV vaccine protects not only against the highly irritating and unpleasant genital warts, but also against types of HPV that cause cervical cancer. We have learned this vaccine protects against cancers later in life. It is not only women whohttp://www.dauphincms.org