Editing Wart (section)

== Prevention ==

[[Gardasil]] 6 is an [[HPV vaccine]] aimed at preventing cervical cancers and genital warts.  Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11. HPV types 16 and 18 currently cause about 70% of [[cervical cancer]] cases,<ref name="pmid16670757" /><ref name="Muñoz2004" /> and also cause some [[vulvar cancer|vulvar]], [[vaginal cancer|vaginal]],<ref name=VulvarCA /> [[penile cancer|penile]] and [[anal cancer]]s.<ref name="Bloomberg" /> HPV types 6 and 11 are responsible for 90% of documented cases of genital warts.<ref name="NEJM">{{cite journal |last1=Steinbrook |first1=Robert |year=2006 |title=The Potential of Human Papillomavirus Vaccines |journal=[[New England Journal of Medicine]] |volume=354 |issue=11 |pages=1109–12 |doi=10.1056/NEJMp058305 |pmid=16540608|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Gardasil 9 protects against HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM426457.pdf |title= Prescribing information Gardasil 9 |publisher= [[Food and Drug Administration]] |date= 2015 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161010062722/https://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM426457.pdf |archive-date= 10 October 2016 }}</ref>

HPV vaccines do not currently protect against the virus strains responsible for [[plantar wart]]s (verrucae).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bossart |first1=Simon |last2=Imstepf |first2=Valentina |last3=Hunger |first3=Robert E. |last4=Seyed Jafari |first4=S. Morteza |date=2020 |title=Nonavalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccination as a Treatment for Skin Warts in Immunosuppressed Adults: A Case Series |journal=Acta Dermato Venereologica |volume=100 |issue=6 |pages=adv00078-2 |doi=10.2340/00015555-3437 |pmc=9128913 |pmid=32115668}}</ref>

=== Disinfection ===
The virus is relatively hardy and immune to many common [[disinfectant]]s. Exposure to 90% [[ethanol]] for at least 1 minute, 2% [[glutaraldehyde]], 30% [[Savlon]], and/or 1% [[sodium hypochlorite]] can disinfect the pathogen.<ref name="phac">[http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/papillome-eng.php Human Papillomavirus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823044955/http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/papillome-eng.php|date=23 August 2015}}. [[Public Health Agency of Canada]]</ref>

The virus is resistant to drying and heat, but killed by {{convert|100|C}} temperature and [[ultraviolet]] radiation.<ref name=phac/>