HPV: An STD with life-threatening strings attached

Published March 12, 2009

When Dina Gruber had abnormal results on her pap test and was diagnosed with human papillomavirus (HPV) in the form of genital warts in November of 2005, she was completely shocked. Gruber, then 35, had been practicing safe sex, using condoms 100 percent of the time, and still contracted HPV.