How to Remove a Wart

A wart is a skin tumor caused by several types  of viruses, the most frequent of them is HPV (Human Papilloma Virus). They're typically named according to their appearance. A wart is a little round tumor located in the top layers of the skin; they can be flat, smooth or elevated. Warts are at times painful specially when they grow on your foot (Plantar Warts)

Warts are extremely infectious and they can be passed on from person to person by touch and furthermore by using common objects like towels and toilet seats in the case of genital warts. They can also be spread throughout your own body by touch and contact through objects.
Genital warts can be passed on by sexual contact, in females they can be inside and be in the cervix where they're not visibly detected, for this reason they can be passed on without any one knowing it.
Warts have been known to go away by themselves, your immune system, when healthy can deal and alleviate the HPV in a few instances but this may take long and by then they can multiply or you can pass them on to other individuals. The best way to take care of warts is to treat immediately to stop them from spreading or self spreading and to make the virus disappear.

There are a number of methods to treat warts, the main problem is that most of these approaches have very high recurrence rates.
One of the most common methods is self applied 5% imiquimod ointment that helps the immune system to fight the HPV and the lesions but the recurrence rate is 13% to 19%.
One more commonly used method is surgical subtraction but not only it's very invasive but it has a reappearance rate of twenty one%.
A recent study showed that self administered podofilox gel has only 10% reappearance rate but the problem is that it only has a fifty one% cure rate.
Cryosurgery (freeze the wart) which is what you more than likely come across at your neighboring pharmacy has an shameful recurrence rate of seventy three%.