infectious causes of cancer
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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Mess With a Wild Iguana That Wants Your Cake
Welcome to another instalment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week. Last week, we admired the trash-stealing cockatoos of Australia. This week features a bitey, cake-stealing iguana that added injury to insult by giving its victim a nasty, rare infection. This weird tale comes from a case report published by Stanford University doctors last April.…
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Around One in Three Guys Have HPV
Plenty of men worldwide are carrying the human papillomavirus, or HPV, research out this week has found. The study estimates that about one in three men currently have at least one strain of genital HPV, while one in five have a strain known to increase the risk of certain cancers in both men and women.…
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GEICO Could Pay $7.33 Million to Woman Who Says She Got STD in Ex’s Car
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read it with my own eyes. In what is likely a first, The Kansas City Star reports that GEICO has been ordered to pay $US5.2 ($7.33) million after one of its customers failed to disclose his HPV-positive status before engaging in unprotected sex in his car.
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Become an STI Expert With Our Handy Germ Guide
There’s no shortage of viruses, bacteria, and critters that take advantage of humans’ love for sex. If your knowledge of STIs still comes mostly from primary school sex ed, it’s time for a refresher, because some of these germs — and how we fight them — have evolved over time.