Keeping one’s fingernails short and washing one’s hands after using the toilet might mitigate HPV somewhat. Might help; wouldn’t hurt.
The “WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care” states that:
• “Failure to comply with hand hygiene is considered the leading cause of health care-associated infections.”
• “Each year, at least two million patients in the USA acquire one or more healthcare-associated infections during their stay in hospital.”
• “Every day 247 people die in the USA as a result of a health-associated infection.”
Infectious diseases, caused by unclean hands, are the leading causes of death and disease worldwide
and the third leading cause of death in the United States.
If this weren’t true, we wouldn’t be seeing hand cleaner on hospital walls. Too bad they aren’t used more.