Anthony Norton of Puyallup, Washington, took his 3-year-old daughter to a doctor this year because she had a bothersome plantar wart on her foot. The doctor applied a chemical ointment to the wart ...

Verruca warts are a particular type of wart that appears on the bottom of your feet. These warts are also caused by HPV. They appear as a circle of hard skin with small black dots in the middle ...

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HPV or human papillomavirus, is an STD—a sexually transmitted disease, an infection passed from one person to another through sexual contact. STDs are caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or ...

A child with a rare tumour on her toe was mistakenly diagnosed as having a wart. Nansi Alys was three when her mum, Leila Evans, first asked doctors about a growth on her foot. Two years later ...