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With the increased knowledge that certain oncogenic subtypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause the development of the disease, a national program of vaccination against two of the 15 oncogenic viruses began in April 2007.
These viruses are supposed to lie dormant but there is nothing to stop them reactivating in a manner similar to the well known RNA oncogenic viruses (Oncornavirus) or the DNA oncogenic viruses (both inducers of leukemia, sarcomas, carcinomas, gliomas).
A group led by Antoine Gessain, head of the Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Oncogenic Viruses Unit at the Pasteur Institute, also recently found a subtype of HTLV-3 in a human, but it's somewhat different from the subtype Switzer and his colleagues found, which suggests "another example of multiple independent, cross-species transmission events," Switzer says.
 
 
 
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