00:00HPV used to be perceived as a woman's disease.
00:04However, from the last two episodes, you know that HPV actually affects men equally
00:09much as HPV affects women. But who passes to whom is a good question.
00:22So there are many arguments to say that actually men actually pass HPV to women a lot more often
00:28than women pass it to men. The answer is actually not quite. There are many studies that show that
00:35men are more likely to get infected from HPV, a trauma transmission from a woman to men
00:41rather than men to women by probably about 30%. And why is that the case? Actually, nobody knows.
00:49But we know that there are several ideas that actually can enhance that transmission. For example,
00:56the actual status of immune system. From the last episode, we know that men's immune system,
01:04when they raise serial conversion against HPV infection, is not as good as women. Therefore,
01:11women are probably more likely to pass it to men because men's immune systems are weaker.
01:17The second reason why actually is because of viral load. Because men accumulate viral loads throughout
01:25their lives because their immune system is not so good. As a result of that, that might also contribute
01:30towards the transmission itself. But more importantly, the actual status of a man when it comes to
01:38circumcised or non-circumcised men. Because we know that non-circumcised men are more likely to get
01:46infection from a woman to men. So therefore, there are multiple reasons why the transmission can be
01:52sometimes gearing to much more women to men, and sometimes men to women. The idea is that if we
02:00reduce the viral load for both sides, then the transmission can be reduced, then cancer
02:07caused by HPV and also diseases such as genital wards caused by HPV can be greatly reduced by both
02:15genders. So therefore, it is pointless to point out who transmits this to whom, even though men are
02:22weaker gender, will probably get it more readily from a woman. But if both viral load is reduced, then
02:29the viral load of transmission is reduced too. For the following week, we're going to talk about
02:35vaccinations. So obviously, we're going to touch about how effective is vaccination, and what do you
02:42think of the idea of herd immunity. So if you want to find out whether there's any parallel analogy you
02:50can draw from the COVID vaccine, then stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.
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