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Both males and females can get this disease and it can be sexually transmitted without necessarily having had intercourse, which is why many people who get HPV won’t even know they got it. In the United States every year there are 6 million new cases of genital HPV and usually 74% of the cases happen in youth ages 15 to 24 years.
