The HPV virus, which is well known to cause cervical cancer in women, and is pretty much rampant among the female population these days, is also going to be causing problems for men as well, it appears.  The virus is a sexually transmitted disease, and you don’t even have to have sexual contact with that many people in your lifetime to become a carrier yourself, since it has actually spread to percentages in the nineties amongst our population today.

There is an increase incidence noted among males showing that oral cancers, supposedly linked to HPV are on the rise in the US today.  It is said that the virus is actually causing significant increases in throat and mouth cancer, and that scientists are linking this increase to it, saying that the increase over the past few years has probably been due to an increase in the popularity of oral sex.

The HPV vaccine, which is given to young women only at the moment, and has caused quite a bit of controversy as a preventive measure against HPV in women, may be offered to men now, actually young boys, to prevent against them being carriers of the rampant virus. 

HPV causes genital warts in women on their exterior female sexual organs, and may come and go over the course of a lifetime, and has been a known cause of cervical cancer, which is why the vaccine was created in the first place, but now experts are saying that it needs to be seriously looked at as a preventive measure for boys as well, since men do spread the virus unknowingly to their female partners who are then more highly susceptible to cervical cancer later in life.