Health experts have warned people that Valentine's Day will not only bring love to them but can bring a far more damaging infection called genital warts.

It has been seen that over the last decade, there has been a tremendous rise in sexually transmitted infection called STIs and they can be prevented and people are being urged by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV or BASHH to get a vaccine against STI.

People are not bothered about STIs whereas they should be and BASHH is making an attempt on making people realize how important it is to understand the importance avoiding such infections.

Every year in the UK, about £46 million is spent on treating genital warts.

The government had as a part of a school-based vaccination programme that was aimed at girls who were 12 to 14 years old, got an amazing response in vaccinating against genital warts.

Cervarix is the current HPV vaccine that is being given to girls under the NHS's school-based vaccination programme is meant only to keep cervical cancer at bay but it does not protect women from other kinds of infections.