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

Question

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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Answer 1

Another relevant element to this is people often misunderstand what makes something an STI. Think of it less as “an infection transmitted by sex” and more as “an infection that can be transmitted by sex”. Plenty of STI’s can be caught from everything from skin to skin contact, to infected water, to even uncooked food or animal bites!