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HPV? Not usually. Most people's immune system prevents the virus from taking over cells in that way. The HPV lives on, but doesn't cause much problem.
Some strains of HPV are worse in that respect, than others though.
If you saw the YouTube vid's on "Tree Man", you see a guy who's skin cells were able to be taken over by a strain of HPV, and the result was horrific to say the least.
He just didn't have the normal gene immune response to control the HPV strain he came in contact with.
There are some other virus's which do cause cancer directly, but they're rare. They just found a new one that jumped species from dogs, according to the BBC this month.
The virus's and bacteria I worry about are the one's that we create as biological weapons. Where they splice something that spreads as fast as measles, onto a deadly killer disease.
Fast acting, no known cure. It would make HIV look like peanuts in comparison. Several countries have done significant research into this field.
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