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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The virus messes with your cells, which causes your cells’ DNA to become messed up. The signals telling your cells to not divide uncontrollably are not as strong. That’s the start of progression to cancer.

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