what causes warts

Almost everyone will, at some point in their life, be affected by the growth of small (or large) warts. But strangely enough most people have no idea what causes warts to suddenly start growing. They just assume that it is one of those things that just happen to everybody at some point in their life. This is partially correct: more than 80 percent of all people have or have had warts. But warts don’t just appear out of nowhere. So what causes warts and what can you do to prevent them?

In most cases warts are caused by a viral infectionof the skin. This sounds quite serious but in fact it is harmless in most of the cases. The virus that is responsible for the development of a wart is called HPV (human papilloma virus), and contracting this virus is what causes warts to start growing. Contrary to what most people think this is not just one virus; it is actually the name for a whole group of different variety's of the virus. All of these viruses combined are called HPV, and getting infected by just one of these is what causes the warts on your skin to start growing.

The human papilloma virus is usually transmitted by direct contact. This not only means direct contact with the wart itself, but also getting in contact with shed skin cells or blood from the wart. Most of the time this happens when you pick or scratch at existing warts, or when you walk barefoot in a place where someone else with warts has been walking barefoot (swimming pools and saunas are notorious). HPV can even be transmitted by a simple handshake. All of these types of contact can be responsible for what causes warts to grow on your feet or hands, but how about warts growing on different parts of your body?

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The most common places for warts to appear are the hands and feet. This is not very strange when you consider that these are the areas of our body that come into contact with our surroundings most often. But sometimes people will grow warts in other places too, for example on the face or neck, and even the genitals. The main thing to remember is that it
is still a type of HPV that causes these warts, and that HPV is transmitted by contact. So basically a combination of these two factors, Human Papilloma Virus and contact, is what causes warts.

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