Can symptoms of HPV show up within two days of acquiring it?
It is unlikely that any infection would show up within two days of exposure. However, nothing is impossible. What is more likely if symptoms of HPV showed up within two days of a new sexual exposure, is that HPV has been present for some time and chose that opportunity to present itself. There was a study done about ten years ago that indicates that 16% of college women had been exposed to one or more strains of HPV by the first year of college. Sixty percent of college women had been exposed to one or more strains of HPV by third year of college, and 85% of college women who had sexual contact of any sort involving the genitals with five or more partners in their lifetime had an 85% chance of being exposed to one or more types of HPV. Having said that, let Pat remind you that most people who have been exposed to HPV have little or no symptoms. People tend to learn they have been exposed one of three ways. One, they have a partner who has been exposed, knows it, and shares that informa
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