1 in 9 Men Have Oral HPV
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Condensed from an article by Alexandra Sifferlin for Time Health
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. It’s so common that federal experts say that nearly every sexually active man or woman will be infected with at least one strain at some point in their lives and one of the riskiest strains of HPV known to cause cancer, HPV 16, was six times more common among men than women.
“There was this perception that HPV was a disease among women, and that needs to change,” says study author Ashish Deshmukh, an assistant professor in the department of health services research, management and policy at the University of Florida.
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