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New prion diseases are being found in other animals and might evolve to enter humans. There is a deer version being watched - not yet found in people, AFAWK? https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/index.html

There have been many cases of assorted Human Papilloma viruses (HPV) transmitted by kissing as well as assorted variances of oral sex. Recent vaccines are very effective.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/public/index.html

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Do you mean HSV? I have seen articles implicating that virus but it's the first time I've heard of a HPV association.

different to HPV. More on HSV https://www.healthline.com/health/herpes-simplex#causes

What do these two things have to do with each other?

Not much, deer prion wasting disease is forced shape-fold mimicry and HPV is DNA insertions affecting repressed cancer causing genes having increased expression. I referenced it, but it does not really fit in.

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