I find it interesting how many people will ask "What do they say caused it?", as if our treatment teams were focused on the causation, not fixing the damage and controlling the spread.

The anti-smoking/drinking folks want to hear that as a cause, the Vegans (that would be the vegetabletarianism people, not the aliens from afar) want to hear it was red meat, the Chastity people want to hear it was HPV, and the land-line wired telephone people want to hear it was cell phones, the Goths want to hear it was sunlight, and so on.

S**t happens, be it genetic codes, oral irritations or something unidentified as of yet -- Like AIDS, there may have been some subtle shift in HPV, coupled with the wrong genetic coding, that is causing the spread.

Better minds than mine are working to find answers as to cause, but that may or may not be useful -- How are we going to fix genetic code defects? Will Microsoft be involved in the update process?

Remember, it wasn't all that long ago that we all believed that stomach ulcers were caused by stress and diet, not a virus!