Does the wart virus last a lifetime?

For most people, the warts virus is not carried for life.HPV infections are categorized into low-risk and high-risk types. Low-risk infections are mainly free, and on average, after about three months to a year, the body’s immune system, such as T cells and NK cells, clears the virus and a virus-free state emerges. For high-risk infections, if it has not integrated into the host cells, there will not be a lifelong persistent infection. 90% of patients with HPV infections will have the virus turn negative in about a year, and a follow-up study of 10% of those with persistent infections has shown that after two years of follow-up, 90% of patients still have the HPV virus that can be cleared by the body’s immune system on its own.