WARNING! INFECTIONS CAUSE CANCER

COMMON infections are responsible for about 13 percent of all cancers worldwide but prevention and early treatments for the disease-causing microbes could help ward off the deadly disease! That's the finding of a report from the American Association for Cancer Research.

There are more than 200 types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) - but nearly a dozen strains of the sexually transmitted infection are linked to an elevated risk of cervical, genital and oral cancers. However, vaccines are available to reduce the odds of contracting the virus.