Genital Warts 

Genital warts (Also called: Condylomata acuminate, Venereal warts) are a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). The warts are soft, moist, pink or flesh-colored cauliflower-like bumps. You can have one or many of these bumps. In women, the warts commonly occur in or around the vagina, on the cervix or around the anus. In men, genital warts are less frequent but might appear on the tip of the penis, near the anus, or between the penis and the scrotum..

You can get genital warts during oral, vaginal or anal sex with an infected partner. Proper usage of latex condoms greatly reduces, but does not completely eliminate, the risk of catching or spreading HPV. Penetration does not have to take place for a person to be infected with genital warts.

Presently there are over twenty million people infected with STD’s in the United States alone. There are over one million new cases per year, with another estimated one million that are unaware that they are infected, because they dont have any genital wart symptoms.

Genital warts vary in size and may even be so small that you can't see them. They can lead to cancer of the cervix in women or cancer of the penis in men.The warts might vanish on their own. If not, your health care provider can treat or remove them. The virus stays in your body even after therapy, so warts can come back.