No, the site of infection is the wart, not elsewhere. EWH
Hi Rd. Hook,
This is very helpfull but I might not have been specific enough with part of my question. So, having a single wart in my pubic area, am i likely to have the virus on my penis?
Thank you very much for your advice.
Rick
Welcome to the STD Prevention Forum. This is a challenging question for which there are not precise answers. While there are rough estimates as to how likely it is for some STDs to be transmitted by contact, at best these are estimates and for HPV we really do not even have good estimates. We can be sure however that most contacts with infected persons, no matter what the STD (i.e. HPV, HSV, gonorrhea, even HIV) do not lead to transmission of infection. We do know that HPV infections are very common but that appears to be in part because they (HPV infections) are so common and because so many infected people are, in general, unaware of their infections. Treatment which leads to resolution of infection in which there are no signs of recurrence prevents further transmission to others.
Furthermore, it is important to appreciate that different types of warts tend to "favor" different locations. Thus warts appearing on some ones hand typically do not infect the genital tract, even when contact occurs. similarly, the types of HPV that cause genital warts typically do not infection skin on other body locations.
I realize this does not provide the detail you are likely to want. I hope these comments are helpful however. EWH