A 40-year-old member asked:
I know this is going to seem like a really dumb, but if warts are contagious, how come you get get hundreds?
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Dr. Randy Lischanswered
Podiatry 40 years experience
Warts are a virus: Warts are a contagious virus that will spread through the epidermis layer of your skin, thereby getting larger and moving into other surrounding areas.
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