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PUBLIC HEALTH: HPV's Peculiarities, From Infection to Disease
Jon Cohen
Human papillomavirus comes in more than 100 different varieties that infect different cells, but fewer than half of those infect the genitalia; some cause cancer, some cause warts, and some don't seem to do much of anything.