Cancer-Causing HPV Found in 20 Percent of U.S. Teens and Adults
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60 (CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, April 6, 2017). The Communicable Disease Center estimates that these cancer-causing viruses infect…