Talk:Wart
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Another treatment for warts is to simply cut them off, or dig them out of the skin (for instance, if a wart appears under a finger or toe nail). Anyone want to phrase this in a medical manner? Hyacinth 03:08, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Viruses can't be aerobic
Viruses can't be aerobic or non-aerobic themselves- they aren't living things. Is the article implying that the wart itself (cells infected with virus) needs oxygen to grow, and absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere?
Yes. Please some clarification on this. You can't "asphyxiate" a virus!!!!
- I've removed the sentence that read: This treatment is effective because the virus that causes warts is aerobic (oxygen-breathing), and duct tape is impermeable to air molecules--thus asphyxiating the viral colony and curing the wart. The study the paragraph refers to does indicate that the duct-table method works, however it does not provide any explanation as to why it works. The aerobic virus theory seems unlikely at best. --PJF (talk) 10:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)