LIFE

Going viral

Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 03/09/2013

» When Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones announced a split last week after 13 years of marriage to "evaluate" their relationship, for some people thoughts turned to human papillo-mavirus (HPV). Two months earlier, Douglas had made comments about his throat cancer, saying that it had been caused by the virus and was contracted from oral sex. He later clarified this, saying he did not contract it from Zeta-Jones and media outlets have reported that it was likely a pre-existing infection.