If you are sexually active you need to know about the different sexually transmitted infections that you can get when you engage in a physical relationship. There are many different infections, some of which are easily cured and others which are not. There are two infections which are easy to treat but impossible to cure. They are genital warts and genital herpes. The two diseases are both caused by a virus but there is where the similarity ends. Genital warts are caused by the human papilloma virus and genital herpes is caused by the herpes simplex II virus. They have different symptoms and ways of being transmitted and it is important that you learn these differences.