Many people already have HPV in their throat, with no symptoms – not right combination of genes?
4. Nearly everyone who has been sexually active has already had a genital tract HPV infection. “Therefore, the chance that you will transmit HPV to someone’s throat by kissing and they will get RRP is essentially zero. Transmitting it to the genital tract of a partner by oral sex is probably close to zero, and the partner is most probably already carrying the virus. Bottom line – I would not worry about it unless your partner is heavily immunosuppressed due to drugs for something like an organ transplant. In that case, you might not want to take the risk, but even then, your partner probably already has a genital tract infection and people who are immunosuppressed shed more HPV from genital warts, so your partner [ed., who has no RRP] would be more contagious than you are. . .
