The lifestyle practices of the university community are a perfect vehicle for the spread of this infection. Due to shared residences, exercise equipment and showers, as well as close personal contact through sports and relationships, this virus is easily transferred. Think of the wart virus as similar to a virus which causes the common cold. Some people will become infected while others do not. Before beginning any treatment for the removal of warts you should confirm that it is, a wart.
Warts usually appear as small skin-coloured bumps and often occur in clusters of similar bumps.
Plantar warts may not present as bumps because they have been forced to grow into your foot due to the pressure of walking. A plantar wart may be confused with callus, which is a thickening of the skin on the pressure points of your foot. Often wart and callus will appear together and can be very painful. If the callus is scraped and dark specks appear you have found a wart. The dark specks are the capillary tips which supply the wart with blood.