Warts are slightly contagious, and you can spread them to other parts of your body by touching them or shaving around infected areas. Warts (verruca vulgaris) is the most common form of viral wart.

We also speak to experts Dr Bernard Ho, consultant dermatologist from the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD), and Dr ...

The HPV virus enters when a skin area is infected or injured, leading to extra cell growth. The outer skin layer becomes thicker, forming the wart. The types of HPV that lead to cancer do not ...

Warts on hands are caused by an infection of the human papillomavirus (HPV). There are more than 100 different strains of HPV, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

'I got a verruca on my foot - I was hours from having both my legs amputated' Doctors were preparing to amputate both Barry Mayled's legs after failing to clear the spreading infection when they ...

Therefore, an immunological therapy directed at eliminating the viral infection has the potential to be an improvement to removal of the wart versus acid, surgery, cryotherapy and other methods ...

In Barry’s case, a simple verruca got out of control when the relatively harmless lesion became infected and ulcerated. It proved resistant to multiple treatments over four years.