After transmission, the HP virus either is cleared by the immune system (or suppressed below the limits of detection) or causes persistent infection.
Infection can be symptomatic or asymptomatic.
You can form warts weeks, months, or years after sexual contact with a person who has genital HPV (lower immune system contributes for manifested HPV infection)
Even after the warts are treated, the virus may remain, and warts can return.
If left untreated, genital warts may go away, remain unchanged, or increase in size or number (you can think the warts have disappeared, but, you may still have a wart or warts you can’t see).
Genital warts are caused by HPV-low risk types.
Cervical changes that can lead to cervical cancer are related to high-risk types of HP viruses.