STDs (Sexually transmitted diseases) tend to include parasitic, bacterial and viral infections, which get passed from one person to the other while being physically intimate.
Medical literature’s current preference is using the term STIs (sexually transmitted infections) instead of STDs, thereby emphasizing that some infections might not cause disease, while others could be silent. For instance, HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) can infect people who are sexually active, in huge numbers at some point of time. Such infections may resolve not causing cervical cancer or genital warts that are termed to be HPV’s ‘disease’ state.
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