wart virus

Avoid contact with the fluid, which may contain the wart virus.

Apparently, scientists say, the immune system somehow keeps the wart virus in check.

The pumice stone or file will also have living wart virus on it.

If the blister breaks, clean the area to prevent the spread of the wart virus.

Experts estimate that at least 90 percent of all cervical tumors contain the wart virus.

Avoiding cancer after infection with the genital wart virus.

A new type of cervical screening test is being introduced which can diagnose the wart virus.

From 2008, young women have been vaccinated against cervical cancer and several (but not all) strains of the wart virus.

Avoid walking barefoot on warm, moist surfaces where the wart virus may be alive.

Although researchers know a lot about how wart viruses cause cancer, they do not know why strains 16 and 18 are so particularly deadly.

Dead tissue contains living wart virus, so dispose of the dead skin carefully.

At the skin surface, the wart virus particles are shed, looking for new, wounded epithelial cells to invade.

For example, Hispanic women with one form of an antibody-forming gene are especially vulnerable to the wart virus that causes cervical cancer.

Has anyone EVER told you the reason for wearing a condom was to stop the warts virus?

Most of the time, he said, the wart virus plays its tricks in the cell nucleus and does not interfere with the host cell's chromosomes.

Of the 70 wart virus strains that afflict humans, about 25 specialize in the genital tract.

Certain cells found in the cervix are particularly vulnerable to wart viruses, Dr. Broker said.

Wart viruses cause cervical cancer, Dr. Howley said, under a special set of circumstances.

But the main reason for including the wart viruses, Dr. Jansen said, was to "give incentive to young men to also take the vaccine."

You can spread the wart virus to other parts of your body by scratching, touching, shaving, or even biting your nails.

A few types of wart virus are linked to changes in the cells in the cervix, which could lead to cervical cancer many years later.

If these treatments don't work, you can try putting a medicine on the wart to trigger your immune system to kill the wart virus.

Scientists have even discovered a strong association between certain wart viruses and such cancers as those of the cervix and larynx.

But when the wart virus, particularly strains number 16 and 18, incorporates its genes into the human chromosomes, the virus becomes deadly.