Medical Questions » Skin Questions » Question No. 866
| Question: | Why do some children get warts and not others? |
| Answer: | About 25% of the population are susceptible to the virus that causes warts. The rest of us are immune. Once the virus enters the skin, it develops extremely slowly until the low-grade infection induces the growth of a wart at that site. This can then spread the virus to other parts of the body.
The virus causing warts is widespread in the community and cannot be avoided.
Eventually the body develops antibodies to the wart virus that cause the wart to drop off and give protection against further warts developing.
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