Are genital warts contagious to humans?

Speaking of genital warts, many people in life don’t know much about it, because it is a sexually transmitted disease, and it mainly occurs among people with chaotic sexual lives. Studies have found that the incidence of genital warts has been increasing in recent years. This is mainly because genital warts are highly contagious and can be transmitted in many ways, not just through sexual intercourse. Now let’s learn with the editor how genital warts are transmitted.

A small number of genital warts are transmitted through contact with contaminated utensils: having come into contact with objects stained with the patient's secretions. Indirect object transmission: can be transmitted through daily necessities such as underwear, bathtubs, and bath towels.

If women wear nylon underwear and do not pay attention to cleaning the vulva, fungal or Trichomonas vaginitis is likely to occur, or if there is an increase in leucorrhea caused by other infections, the local immersion and moisture will provide favorable conditions for the inoculation, breeding and reproduction of papillomavirus. Scratching the genitals with contaminated hands or using contaminated towels can also cause the infection of genital warts.

Autoinoculation of genital warts: Clinically, patients with genital warts on the external genitalia or anus are found to have genital warts because their hands often come into contact with genital warts, which are then transmitted to the skin and mucous membranes of other parts of the body through their hands, causing genital warts.

Direct sexual contact transmission: This is the main route of transmission of genital warts. When having sexual intercourse with a patient with genital warts, the warts growing on the external genitalia are easily scratched because they are exogenous, protruding and brittle. The viruses in the warts and epidermal tissues then fall off and are inoculated onto the genitals of the sexual partner, causing infection with the human papillomavirus and the disease. Therefore, genital warts are likely to occur among people with promiscuous sexual relationships.

After reading the above description, we can see that the virus that causes genital warts can be transmitted not only through direct sexual contact, but also through indirect object contact. So this tells us that we should not only avoid sexual contact with sick people of the opposite sex, but also keep our personal toiletries separate in our daily lives.