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Old 11-04-2015, 10:14 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by flylock shox View Post
Part of the problem is that a huge proportion of people with the virus don't know they have it, and for some reason standard std tests in Canada don't test for it either.

It's basically physically harmless, but it doesn't make sense not to test for it given how common it is and how easily transmitted it is. I wonder if they don't do it because so many people already have it.
It's a pretty big waste of money to test for things that 2/3rds of people have, that is ultimately physically harmless, and there is no cure for. Better to put it towards development of a vaccine ala HPV (Also something they do not test for for the same reasons).
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