HPV infections are very common. Nearly everyone will get HPV at some point in their lives.

• More than 42 million Americans are infected with types of HPV that are known to cause disease.
• About 13 million Americans, including teens, become infected each year.

HPV is spread through intimate skin-to-skin contact. You can get HPV by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has the virus, even if they don't have signs or symptoms.

HPV types are often referred to as "non-oncogenic" (wart-causing) or "oncogenic" (cancer-causing), based on whether they put a person at risk for cancer.

Read more at: https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/about/index.html