If anyone researches this they will wee that HPV is the most commonly transferred sexual disease (STD) according to the CDC. We have known about its sexual transfer for ever and a day since it is the cause of cervical cancer and IS transferred sexually. The earliest understanding of this component of its nature was a century ago when a researcher in France noticed that nuns there never got cervical cancer but prostitutes did.

Checking the NCI for information on an STD is the wrong source since most STD's (including HPV) do not cause cancer. The CDC would be the best source for public information. We also know much about how it is transfered, in the vast majority just epithelial cells touching other epithelial cells. It does not require a fluid transfer like some (HIV). It does not require any penatrative action for transfer. Ever wonder why your very young kids come home from pre school and have warts on their hands? They touch other kids that have it, it isn't any more difficult than that.

What we know less about is all the ways that it can be transferred to the oral environment (that would be the correct issue as it relates to oral cancers) not how it is transferred in the vast majority of the cases, which we do understand in detail. Also the versions that are known to be cancer causing or oncogenic, are only a few of the more than 112 version out there. They are NOT the most prevalent HPV's. Most versions of the virus we don't even know what they do, perhaps nothing at all but exist benignly in our body. in the most common versions (which are not the oncogenic ones) it causes papillomas which are unbelievably common (warts).

I am all for people that have had this touch their lives get the word out. But if you guys are going to talk to people about this issue, you need to get some of the basic facts right.