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Why no concrete answers?

Unlike HSV and HIV/AIDS which remain dormant in the body forever (for all the foreseeable future thus far). How can people say that the body cannot permanently clear viral infections? where the immune system can reach them. Molluscum contagiosum is a fine example this viral infection affects the skin mucosa just as HPV does, yet this virus is permanently removed when the lesions regress (due to immune response I would imagin) it has no "dormant" phase.

much debate between experts HPV is "believed" by some to be a lifelong infection, probably due to the absence of HPV during a PAP test and then the re-appearance later on. Couldn't a negative test followed by a positive just be a result of a person having regular intercourse? thus resulting in persistent infection. Given the clearance time of the infection is above 6 months or above.
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I feel so mad and confused about tons of uncertain about hpv, if the statistic is correct then 80%people have or will be infected by hpv, and they told us there is no cure for it and the hpv is probably for life? How ridiculous it is! I just wanna some truth like you guys!
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There are women who admiit to having positive results after years of no sex or years of lots of sex with one partner and years of negative results. The only way to know for sure is for women's results to identify the strain. If it is the same strain, it is from the past. If is a different strain years later, then it cannot be from the past. Medical scrienve has a lot to go to understand HPV. What doctors know changes every year.
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