Thanks to everyone for responding. I am going to read the articles suggested to me before I ask any additional questions. My husband has been very open about HPV with his friends, co-workers and family. I have told my family and our children only. I am not concerned that people might know who I am. It is not about me. I didn't want my son to read the following and jump to the wrong conclusion. He had a spot on his tongue for a year but I think much longer. The dentist said that he had never seen anything like that before. He referred him to a general surgical center. The surgeon said that he had never seen anything like it either but he removed it and the biopsy was negative for cancer. That was about 2 years ago and my concern was that my son would read this forum and panic. He is relatively young. I didn't know about OC in men by HPV or I would have had his surgery done by an ENT and I would have asked questions. It ticks me off that the dentist sent us to a general surgeon and I don't think the biopsy checked for HPV at all.

I am not anti-vaccine. My sons girlfriend had the vaccine series a couple of years ago. I think he will have the vaccine and it won't be a problem. It was a Hematologist (in a satellite office of my husbands Oncologist) that made the promiscuous remark about the vaccine. I thought it was ridiculous advice to give a patient. I just wanted him to tell me if it is possible that my blood test issues (over 9 months with no known cause) could possibly be due to HPV. The pap smears have not tested positive but men don't have Pap Smears so what does that mean to a woman?

I haven't read that you can pass the HPV virus to an infant thru childbirth or that a child would develop HPV in a normal childhood. I have not read thru the articles yet that were listed in this thread. I did research this months ago ONLY because my son asked if we passed HPV on to him. I thought it was highly unlikely but I did research it and what I read at that time said it was extremely unlikely. One article listed 'theoretically' how it could happen but the hypothetical items were so unlikely that it was close to laughable. I am not a doctor tho and I haven't read these additional articles.