Link between transmission and hygiene

[Mat789]

Is there any link between transmission of any std and the hygiene of the people involved?

[Mat789]

Interesting. CDC seem to have different views from the UK's National Health Service. http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Warts/Pages/Causes.aspx

[Vance2335]

You CANNOT get HPV from:
• Toilet seats
• Kissing on the mouth, hugging, or holding hands
• Being unclean (bad hygiene)
• Sharing food or utensils
• Swimming in pools or hot tubs
• Family history (heredity)

Straight form the CDC

[Mat789]

Yes, sorry I meant the swimming pool changing room, not the pool itself. It's wet surface is often known to transmit wart causing HPV.

[Vance2335]

No you can not get HPV from swimming pools.

Anything that causes a wart is considered HPV so it can be non sexually transmitted.

[Mat789]

Although that's more to do with the hygiene of the swimming pool than the hygiene of people

[Mat789]

But it's well known that people can get strains of HPV from swimming pools or other wet surfaces, causing warts on their feet.  In this sense, it's clearly not an std.

[Vance2335]

No, HPV is a STD and hygiene has nothing to do with it.
Just because someone takes a shower 2 times a day, he/she would not be at any less risk for a STD. It's sexual behavior that determins STD risk.

[Mat789]

I mean HPV

[Mat789]

Except HPV I'm guessing. Although you could argue HOV isn't really an std.

[Vance2335]

No