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Could this be a false positive?
I was told that I had the hpv virus about two years ago. Then recently I was told that i may have hsv type 2, also. My one and only partner ever has been viewed by 3 doctors who told him that he was fine, and that he has never had any outbreaks or problems. I recently had a scraping done from small blisters that were in my vaginal area and i wanted to know if it were possible for the lab to mistake the hpv virus for the hsv virus under the microscope, meaning that the virus that was isolated from the scraping was really the hpv and they just assumed that it was hsv instead?
like evie said herpes are cold sores also. and you dont have to make direct contact to get it. its through saliva, blood or any bodily fluids. and if its hpv, guys often carry the virus with no symptoms and it just goes away. women sometimes can have the same thing. i really dont think that the lab would have mixed it up. it sounds like youre leaving part of the story out of the equation.
HPV causes genital warts and HSV causes blisters - herpes on the genitals and cold sores on the face, whether type 1 or 2. HPV and HSV are different viruses, so I don't think the lab would confuse them. Even if the doctor looked at the different infections on the body, one doesn't look like the other. Hope that helps.
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