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Actually statistics from the CDC have shown at 80% of individuals will have an HPV infection at some time in their lifetime until about March of last year. At that time, research was released by Dr. Anna Giuliano of Moffit Cancer Center showing that 50% of South and North American males were more than likely infected with HPV. Suddenly the CDC changed its statistics. This research was confined to males but was the only coinciding event which after years of using 80% the CDC up and changed its numbers.
Despite writing to them and asking for them to clarify this (they get their info from a third party) I have yet to receive an answer.
I am more likely to believe the numbers previously used of 80% especially since there are so many cases which are never reported as there is no dysplasia reporting center as there is with cancer.
If you think of HPV DNA like an ingredient in a cake, once you ad it in (equivalent to the HPV DNA incorporating itself into our own cells, you can't just separate it out. So even though you cannot see it there is no way for the DNA to disassemble itself. As I've mentioned when cells become abnormal, the bodies TSP (tumor suppressor proteins) are programmed to instruct the cell to basically commit suicide to prevent just this kind of thing - replication of abnormal cells. But, HPV has its own oncoproteins which disable those TSPs which is how it can get around the bodys immune system and lead to dysplasia and/or cancer.

February 9, 2012 - 6:05am

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