If your partner has genital warts can they give it to you?

If an individual has human papillomavirus (HPV), that individual can give genital warts to the sexual partner even if he himself (or she herself) doesn't have them. HPV is the virus that causes all kinds of warts, and there are specific types of HPV that cause genital warts. Not everyone who has HPV has warts, so a person may be carrying the virus and not know it. If an infected person (without warts) had sex with another, he or she may transmit the virus to that other person, who may develop the symptoms (wart growths).

Keep in mind that the warts themselves are treatable with medical procedures (surgery, cryotherapy, electrodesiccation, etc) and topical treatments (Wartscide, etc), but HPV isn't.