No troubles, Charm. Makes for a lively discussion. I may add, and a little butt kissing myself lol, you and Klo do add a certain element of authenticity to the mix. I don't think this is the end of the subject being HPV is complex, as you know. I hope we answered the nancy14's question. Btw, I have plenty of conspiracy theories lol.

Not much info, here are three seperate articles, last was the swedish mention.

"Oral HPV infection therefore has important health consequences, and yet, little is known about risk factors for infection. Limited available data suggest that oral HPV infection is likely sexually acquired: a history of sexually transmitted disease and number of oral sexual partners are associated with both oral HPV infection (6, 7) and HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer. (4) Additionally, the presence and persistence of an oral high-risk HPV infection has been associated with a persistent oral infection in a spouse (8). Consistent with this data are the increased risk for oral cancer among husbands of women with cervical cancer (9, 10) as well as the increased risk for oral cancer among women with a history of cervical cancer. (11, 12) Indeed, husband-wife pairs have been diagnosed with HPV16-positive tonsillar cancer and viral sequencing revealed the HPV16 variant to be identical in the tumors, consistent with transmission of the virus between the couple. (13)"

(8) "although squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) is closely linked to tobacco and alcohol use, there is an increasing incidence HPV16-related SCCHN arising in the oropharynx. The mechanisms of viral transmission, carcinogenesis and natural history are not well understood. Here, we report a couple-husband and wife diagnosed synchronously with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck wherein the tumors were positive for HPV16 by PCR diagnosis. Both viral genomes were genetically identical and closely related to the revised European prototype, HPV16R. An uncommon signal variant nucleotide was identified in both genomes that is not present in the HPV16R. These tumors likely represent transmission between the couple.
PMID: 18061523 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]"

"Such an increased risk of tonsillar cancer was not associated with cervical HPV lesions in another study in Sweden.27 Different rates of tonsillectomy might partly explain the discrepancy between these two studies. More importantly, however, it was shown that husbands of patients with HPV associated cervical cancer had an increased risk of tonsillar cancer (standardised incidence rate, > 2.00), which also suggests that HPV might be involved in tonsillar carcinogenesis. Such an association is further supported by the fact that HPV associated tonsillar carcinomas have been detected in transplant recipients, who have an increased risk of HPV infections.31,32"