I am impressed, maybe a breakthrough?
Many years ago it was discovered that papilloma virus infection appeared to be a dominant cofactor in cervical cancer.
Papilloma virus vaccine was greeted with much resistance, but papilloma virus needs to go on your list as something that must be considered.
Papilloma virus may be a factor in respiratory tract, including lung cancers.
See here from American Council on Science and Health.
The vaccine is PC because it appears to remove one more argument for social good behavior. If we can add lung cancer to the things it prevents, it provides impetus for all of our children to partake. Whether or no, the vaccine is a sound idea, honest people rightly distrust it.
Here’s the deal, as best i can understand it–papilloma virus strains have been linked to cervical cancer, and probably cause cancers of the repiratory tract. They are infectious and can be transmitted by contact.
The issue whether a vaccine for the culprit strains is justified to reduce risk of cervical cancer-which has a very high rate of papilloma infection–like 90 %.
The research on respiratory tract cancers is ongoing, but the papilloma virus apparently is a factor in cancers of other organ systems.
I will leave it at that. It is an infection and the infection is highly correlated for certain strains and cervical cancer. Yes there are many strains not implicated as i understand it, but i ain’t no virologist. Viri are living things and do reproduce, they are cellular parasites though and dependent on an infestation. They are, as Young Frankenstteeeen said “ALIVE” but not independent life. HIV is a parasite, all the viral illnesses are parasitic.
There be bacteria that are independent souls but they need media and circumstances where they can grow and reproduce. They are predators, and there are other one celled organisms that have a different parasitic life cycle adn need to invade and use cells. Nuff said?
Did you mean infection or cancer. Are you saying that some folks get infected and others seem immune? How does the virus reproduce if it doesn’t infect things – you would think your 100 strains would die out. I think you are being a little obtuse here. Cervical cancer seems to have a very corrolation to infection with the Papilloma virus.
Or maybe you could clarify your comments a bit, because they don’t seem to make sense.
Many medical conditions that are intractable to standard methods are probably the result of causes that are not imagined by the investigators. Often this requires a confluence of circumstances – the right agent, the right patient, the right conditions.
Papilloma virus is nearly ubiquitous (there are over 100 strains of HPV), but in many cases there is little or no evidence of infection.