Human Papillomavirus has more than one symptom, and often the symptoms are not visible. One of the visual symptoms is genital warts. The warts are usually found around the anus, cervix, vulva, vagina, scrotum, or penis. The can be hard to spot if one does not what they are looking for because they are soft, moist, and flesh colored. The warts do not appear weeks or sometimes months after infection. They are extremely contagious, even when they aren’t visible. They are spread by skin to skin contact, which is why condoms do not protect against HPV 100 percent. Sometimes the warts appear in the inner thigh and condoms only protect the vagina and penis area. Research even shows than when eighty-two women used condoms consistently, while in college, it reduced transmission by seventy percent. HPV types 11 and 6 are the types that cause genital warts. However, there is a much worse and deadly symptom caused by HPV. It is cervical cancer, and the type that cause this are HPV 16 and 18. Unfortunately, these types are more commonly found in patients than any other kind of HPV type. These types are linked to 99.7 percent of all cervical cancer. HPV 16 alone is linked to more than 50 percent of all cervical cancer. Fortunately HPV will only develop into cancer if the infection is a persistent one. There is no universal definition accepted of persistent infection with HPV. Many investigators determine a patient with persistent HPV if the DNA of the virus is detected four to six apart in two consecutive visits. In most cases the virus is cleared in twelve months by the immune system. It is still unclear if a negative HPV DNA assay result indicates that the virus has been truly eradicated or if it is just being maintained in a dormant or latent state below the one of the detection of the assay. None the less if left untreated HPV could develop into cervical cancer. The process is actually very interesting