Aug 08
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Women Sues Man for Infecting Her with HPV
HPV, or the human papilloma virus, can be a fairly silent STD (sexually transmitted disease), however it can cause outbreaks of genital warts in some carriers, and has been thought to be triggered (the warts part) by things like stress and anxiety, or just random outbreaks, although many attest that they break out in the genital warts when they are under stress mostly. HPV has gotten lots of attention over the past few years as being a very potential danger for the evolution of the virus into cervical cancer in women, where the symptoms of HPV are most prevalently seen in a physical way.
For this reason, the new vaccination, Gardasil, has been given to many young girls now as a precaution against them getting the extremely common sexually transmitted disease, and supposedly protecting them from being in danger of developing cervical cancer from the virus some day. However, that has been hotly debated, and some say the Gardasil vaccine must be readministered every few years to even remain active in the body and help protect against HPV.
Further, many say that Gardasil’s health risks outweight it’s benefits with many teens experiencing disconcerting side effects after getting the injection, and with many specialists saying they believe Gardasil’s protective abilities are severely limited since it only prevents against a few strains of HPV, and there are many many more that it does not protect against, most of which can potentially also evolve into cervical cancer over time.
Anyways, I digress. A women from Iowa has sued her ex boyfriend who she says infected her with the HPV virus after they were dating and had sex. She says that she asked him if he had been screened for STD’s and he responded he had, and tested free of any of them. She also says that then after they had sex, he asked her a few days later if she had been tested for HPV. She tested positive for the virus, and had a successful surgery to remove the problem spots and is now free of the symptoms, but apparently she wants revenge.
I’m not sure how practical it is to allow people to sue for getting an STD, after all, isn’t that kind of a leap of faith for everyone? Granted, the guy apparently lied to her, but HPV is so common that it has been estimated that as much as 80-90 percent of the population either has HPV or is a carrier. Should we really be able to sue partners for this? I’m not so sure, however this particular woman ended up winning over a million dollar settlement against her former flame.
