Eli5 if HPV is a sexually transmitted infection why can it cause so many kinds of cancers, specifically in women?

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Between the commercials & decades of preventative measures available to people as young as teenagers, why isn’t general causation info more transparent?

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It causes tumors bc it infects basil cells (the ones that all the other cells divide from). Once those are compromised, your body loses the ability to control the division of the cells better known as cancer or tumors

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