Is RRP a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)?
It is universally acknowledged in the HPV/RRP research and treatment communities that juvenile onset RRP arises following a susceptible baby’s passage through the birth canal of a mother who is infected with HPV 6, 11 or 16 (Shah). Since these subtypes do not grow elsewhere on the skin, and since these HPV subtypes don’t come down from the sky, there are two possibilities that might explain how the larynx of an adult could become infected: (1) Adult onset RRP arose either from a latent juvenile-onset infection that was quiescent and somehow later became activated; or (2) It arose in a susceptible host as a result of oral sexual contact with an infected partner or through oral contact with an object that had touched the genitalia of an infected person. This is what has been propounded by HPV/RRP experts such as Drs. Bettie Steinberg, Keerti Shah, Haskins Kashima, Tom Broker and others. No other epidemiological possibilities have been propounded. Thus we have it: RRP did not come down fr
