Circumcision helps stop wart virus, study finds

[cali]

WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 6, 2011 6:31pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have documented yet another health benefit for circumcision, which can protect men against the AIDS virus, saying it can protect their wives and girlfriends from a virus that causes cervical cancer.

Wives and girlfriends of circumcised men had a 28 percent lower rate of infection over two years with the human papilloma virus or HPV, which causes warts and cervical cancer, they reported in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday.

"Our findings indicate that male circumcision should now be accepted as an efficacious intervention for reducing the prevalence and incidence of HPV infections in female partners. However, protection is only partial; the promotion of safe sex practices is also important," Dr. Maria Wawer and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore wrote.

Wawer's team piggybacked the HPV study onto a larger study that has shown circumcised men are less likely to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

"We enrolled HIV-negative men and their female partners between 2003 and 2006, in Rakai, Uganda," they wrote in their report in the Lancet medical journal.

They were able to get details on HPV infections for nearly 1,000 of the women, all identified by men as long-term sex partners such as wives. After two years, 27.8 percent of the steady partners of circumcised men had HPV infections, compared to 38.7 percent of the partners of uncircumcised men.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7056HB20110106

[Agent William]

1. Ya know what else stops viruses etc...?

Taking showers and staying clean. Done. And it random sex is your thing....then condoms should also be your thing.

I'm sure this study has merit in Uganda, but not in the western world. End of story. I wish like hell that people would stop launching studies trying to justify circumcision.

[cali]

2. just posting information

I'm neither for circumcision nor against it. Personally, I chose not to have my kid circumcised.

[seabeyond]

3. gasp... neutral? and chose son not be circumcised? yet giving info for circumcision.

i am impressed. that doesnt happen often on du. i like.

the balance

pretty

[Agent William]

4. Fair enough...

In Europe the idea of snipping is quite alien to us, hence my reaction.

:hi:

[DrDan]

5. I choose taking the chance of warts

[wildbilln864]

6. never had a wart in my life...

not circ'd either. Are some just immune to the wart viruses? I must assume so.

[cali]

9. Warts are a problem for women far more than for men.

[Orrex]

7. Every boy who gets brutally mutlilated in this way will grow up to be a homicidal maniac

True fact.

[progressoid]

11. Your post makes me so mad...

I want to go out and

KILL

KILL

KILL!

[formercia]

8. The Church says so

and the procedure reduces sexual pleasure, which is the whole point. It's analogous to circumcision of women.

It's all about control.

A better solution is to require HPV immunization as a prerequisite for entering the educational system, thus reducing dramatically the number of vectors and eventually ridding the Human Race of the virus, just like what was done with Polio.

[xchrom]

10. does that mean my wonderful weiner without the drapes is back in vogue?

it's so hard to keep up with these things.

i almost stopped posting in the nude here --