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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HPV is a virus. Viruses reproduce by sneaking into your cells and changing how they reproduce.
Viruses don’t just make the cells make more of the virus, they actually leave behind information too. That left behind information can prevent the cell from shutting down if something goes wrong.
All cancer is a collection of cells that are dividing uncontrollably. HPV just enables that in certain cell types, which are found in the mouth and reproductive organs. Luckily, the virus doesn’t spread very fast, so the damage is mainly limited to places with direct contact to the infected fluids.
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