How to Use papillomavirus in a Sentence

papillomavirus

noun
  • While only a doctor can diagnose you for sure, the bumps could be genital warts, a common effect of the human papillomavirus.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Human papillomavirus can cause deadly cervical cancer as well as vaginal, anal and penile cancer.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The rabbit papillomavirus only affects hares and can’t be transmitted to humans or other types of animals.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Virus with a scientific and folkloric legacy The Shope papillomavirus is not new to science.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The disease is also known as cottontail rabbit papillomavirus.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • What exactly is the rabbit papillomavirus?
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The state does not require children to be immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV).
    — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • When one Republican tried to get an exemption for the human papillomavirus vaccine, tempers flared.
    — Wayne Drash, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Its human-papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, is growing sales at an impressive clip, bringing in over $3 billion in the first half of this year alone.
    — David Wainer, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Factors like warm weather and a bad mosquito season (which is the case this summer in Colorado) can influence how prevalent papillomavirus is each year.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In healthcare, a new detection kit for human papillomavirus and Zika virus promises to speed diagnosis testing from hours to minutes.
    — Jennifer Lu, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Many had lesions on their feet, which veterinarians have identified as a papillomavirus — from the same viral family that gives humans warts but is unique to northern fulmars.
    — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The hornlike growths on the rabbits are wart-like tumors caused by the Shope papillomavirus, according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Since the initial reports, Van Hoose has spent her days on the phone, talking to reporters clamoring for information about the rabbit papillomavirus.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife explains that rabbit papillomavirus causes black module growths, usually on the animal's head.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These diseases, which included adenovirus, herpesvirus, and papillomavirus, were preserved in the bones of Neanderthals.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The growths, known as rabbit papillomas, are caused by a virus in the animal called cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, Van Hoose explained.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These cancers are rising fast, especially in men, and research suggests that HPV, the human papillomavirus, is spreading through oral sex.
    — Marilynn Marchione, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
  • Human papillomavirus, for example, retains traces of its ancient emigration.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2012
  • His work on rabbit papillomavirus formed the basis of understanding human papillomavirus (HPV) strains, some of which can cause cancer.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Generally, papillomavirus is possible in many types of animal species, including humans.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) makes rabbits grow real horns made of keratin, mostly on their heads but sometimes on their faces.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus is specific to rabbits and cannot infect other species, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus is specific to rabbits and cannot infect other species, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Kara Van Hoose said the growths are caused by a virus specific to bunnies called cottontail rabbit papillomavirus.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • According to Scientific American, papillomavirus may also cause squamous cell cancer in rabbits, which can be deadly to the animals.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Twarock’s tilings therefore applied to a wider range of viruses, including the polyomaviruses and papillomaviruses that had evaded Caspar and Klug’s classification.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2017
  • Human papillomavirus, for example, often causes cervical precancer and cancer.
    — Roger Marshall, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • According to the Associated Press, the animals carry Shope papillomavirus, a disease that produces wart-like growths that can resemble horns or tentacles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Human papillomavirus infection, for example, is known to significantly increase the chances of developing cervical cancer.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020

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