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No they're not. An innocent person can't succumb to an ICO the way anyone can get Cancer.

This is just a very old story: "A fool and his money."

cancer isn't transmittable either

There are several forms of transmittable cancer in other species. Luckily none in humans yet.

HPV could be considered transmittable cancer. Some types of cancer only occur because of an HPV infection.

Some viruses, like HPV, are transmittable and can cause cancer

isn't that more like "a virus that's transmittable that causes cancer", not "cancer that's transmittable"?