Duct Tape Can Remove Warts

chris_calabrese writes "According to this Reuters article on Yahoo! News, "Duct tape, already legendary for its many uses, can also be deployed to get rid of warts, U.S. Army researchers said on Monday." The basic idea is to tape over the warts and suffocate them. Apparently more effective than the traditional cryotherapy too."

Comments

Re:See a doctor.

[Twirlip of the Mists]

It takes 2 to 3 years to train to be a doctor

Lol. That's a good one. Let's see, a bachelor's degree, that's 3-4 years. Then four years of medical school-- and no, you can't "test out" of any of it; medical school is four years, and that's that. Then three to six years of residency, depending on your specialty.

If you're a true badass who chooses the right specialty-- and I'm not even going to count undergrad time here-- you can become a doctor in as little as seven years. And that's if you pick one of the "easy" specialties with a short residency. If you do what my girlfriend is doing-- get your MD/PhD, then do a surgical residency, then a fellowship-- you're looking at an upper bound of fifteen consecutive years of training. That's three years for a PhD in biology, four years for an MD, six years of residency at a teaching hospital, and two more years of fellowship before you can go get an actual job practicing medicine.

Doctors are better trained than you give them credit for.

Original medical paper

[Tnylr]

From the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v156n10/rful l/ poa20075.html

Re:This is great news

[Bonker]

A clue for the clueless -- DO NOT PUNCTURE WARTS UNLESS YOU WANT MORE OF THEM!

The virus that causes warts is easily spread from lymphatic fluid from a punctured wart.