Quote Originally Posted by Wahine View Post
Wow, BTChance. I have been misled and I thought I was fairly informed on the topic. My mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the post I wrote was based on information I had gathered at that time. So does having HSV increase the probability of having HPV? Are they linked in some way?

And +1 what Knott said.

Thank you so much for your information.

Wahine - herpes virus and HPV are confused pretty often unless you deal with both of them frequently. The difference between the two of them is that:
HSV - causes ulcers, no cancer
HPV - causes warts (growth-looking lesions) and cancer.
Having HSV indirectly increases risk of HPV just because they are transmitted the same way. It doesn't increase the risk in any other way that I know of.