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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Female uterine lining and that organ in general has a high regeneration rate. That is to say the cells die and are replaced at a fast pace. This makes them more likely naturally to develop a cancer causing mutation as they are copied more often.

Add to that a viral infection that doesn’t kill the cells it infects very fast or sometimes at all. Viruses inject instructions via rna into a cell to edit it’s behavior and create more of the virus. The locations of the edits and the fast copy nature of the cells makes certain cancerous mutations far more likely.

The solution to this is to stop everyone fucking everyone else like it’s going out of style. (The same way you stop every other sexually transmit disease). But as men and women refuse to stop whoring around or have standards places like California are requiring vaccination against HPV despite the MASSIVE side effects list for it.

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