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Article: Winning the war on warts: with patient and proper treatment, you can conquer these annoying foes. (includes related article on ways to avoid getting or spreading warts)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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See how much you know about warts. Which of the following are true?
* Warts come from touching a toad.
* You can get rid of warts by rubbing them with vitamin E oil.
* To make sure a wart does not come back, you must remove its roots.
The answer is none. Although a toad looks warty, it cannot give you warts. Vitamin E has no value for removing warts, and warts do not have roots. Warts, which are tough, flesh-colored bumps, seem to inspire such myths. But the truth is, warts are caused by a virus. Approximately 50 varieties of the human papillomavirus produce warts.
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