How the cervical cancer virus is contracted

The virus of cervical cancer generally refers to HPV virus, which is human papillomavirus, and there are many ways of transmission of this virus, as follows: first, sexual transmission, research shows that the most important way of HPV virus infection is sexual transmission, generally more than half of women who have sex will be infected with HPV virus, most of this infection can naturally subside, only a small percentage will continue to be infected, causing The majority of these infections can subside naturally, but only a small percentage will persist and cause lesions in the cervix. Second, direct skin-to-skin contact, which may be related to HPV virus contact with the skin on the surface of the human body, and then through the surface of the skin contact with the vagina and cervix. Third, mother-to-child transmission, which may be due to intrauterine infection of the fetus as a result of maternal infection.