Thankyou all for your comments. I know my brother and his wife have not had multiple partners. I suppose my question is can you have this without having someone passing it on to you? I have read that sometimes the HPV virus has no symptoms and is carried by the female. Is that correct? As far as the pathology results go they have already been done. My brother is not into asking many questions and trusts the doctors completely with what they are doing. But, I suppose I like to know more about this than he does!