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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common virus.
There are more than 100 types of HPV, most of which are relatively harmless, do not cause any noticeable symptoms, and will go away on their own. Of these, about 30 infect the genital areas of women and men.
At least half of all women and men who have sex acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
A significant majority of women – 80 percent – will become infected with a form of HPV by age 50.
Pap tests, which screen for abnormalities of the cervix, often identify abnormalities caused by HPV.
Cervical cancer develops when abnormal cells in the lining of the cervix begin to multiply out of control in response to HPV infection.
Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer affecting women and the second-leading cause of cancer death in women.
In the United States, about 10,000 women will develop cervical cancer this year, resulting in about 3,000 deaths.
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My Biography
Birth name Jessica Marie Alba ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------
Nickname Sky Angel ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------
Mini biography
Born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981, my family and I moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, when I was an infant. Three years later my Air Force father brought our family back to California, then to Del Rio, Texas, before finally settling in Southern California when I was nine. I was in love with the idea of becoming an actress from the age of five, I was 12 before I took my first acting class. Nine months later I was signed by an agent. As a gifted young actress, I have already played a variety of roles ranging from light comedy to gritty drama since beginning my career. I made my feature film debut in 1993 in Hollywood Pictures' comedy Camp Nowhere (1994). Originally hired for two weeks, I got my break when an actress in a principal role suddenly dropped out. I cheerfully admit it wasn't my prodigious talent or charm that inspired the director to tap me to take over the part--it was my hair, which matched the original performer's. The two-week job stretched to two months, and I ended the film with an impressive first credit. Two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney quickly followed before I was featured in several independent films. I branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role in Nickelodeon's popular comedy series "The Secret World of Alex Mack" (1994). I played an insufferable young snob, devoted to making life miserable for the the title character, played by Larisa Oleynik. That same year I won the role of Maya in "Flipper" (1995) and filmed the pilot for the series. She spent 1995 shooting the first season's episodes in Australia. An avid swimmer and PADI-certified scuba diver, I was delighted to be doing a show that allowed me to play with dolphins. The show's success guaranteed it a second season, which I also starred in. My involvement in the show lasted from 1995 to 1997. Since the show ended I've appeared in a number of TV shows and films. In 1996 I appeared in Venus Rising (1995) as Young Eve. The next year I appeared on the "The Dini Petty Show" (1989), a Canadian talk show, and spoke about my role in "Flipper" and her general acting career. I began working on P.U.N.K.S. (1999), featuring Randy Quaid, in 1998. In early 1998 then I appeared in "Brooklyn South" (1997) as Melissa. That same year I was in two episodes of "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990) as Leanne and in two episodes of "The Love Boat: The Next Wave" (1998). I appeared in "Teen Magazine" in 1995 and various European magazines in the following several years. More importantly, I was featured in the February 1999 issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine. I also had major roles in two movies that year: Never Been Kissed (1999) and Idle Hands (1999). In 2000 I had roles in Paranoid (2000/I) and starred in the sci-fi TV series "Dark Angel" (2000).Dark Angel Season 1
"Pilot" Max, a young woman possessing incredible powers, searches for others like her in a bleak, near-future Seattle.
"Heat" Max locates the woman who helped save her life during the escape from Manticore.
"C.R.E.A.M." Max and Logan aid the daughter of a journalist presumed murdered; Max and Original Cindy help Sketchy when he gets in over his head with unscrupulous gamblers.
"Flushed" When Max is thrown in prison, she attempts to stop the warden from abusing a young woman.
"411 on the DL" Max attempts to raise a large sum of cash when Vogelsang claims he can reunite her with a Manticore escapee.
"Prodigy" Terrorists seize hostages inside a hotel where a scientist is scheduled to present a paper on genetic research that could spell the end of all disease.
"Cold Comfort" Max and Zack enlist Lydecker's help as they set out to rescue one of their own; the Jam Pony gang plays a trick on the company's potential new owner.
"Blah Blah Woof Woof" Lydecker attempts to trap Max by distributing wanted posters throughout town and offering a reward for her capture.
"Out" A criminal captures Logan and Sung in hopes of ascertaining Eyes Only's identity; Normal's significant other has a secret.
"Red" A breed of seemingly unstoppable super-soldier closes in on Max as she guards an old nemesis preparing to testify against the mayor.
"Art Attack" Normal finds his life on the line when a delivery mix-up causes the loss of a Norman Rockwell painting; Max attends a wedding with Logan.
"Rising" Max resorts to extreme measures when the Reds take Original Cindy hostage.
"The Kidz Are Aiight" When Lydecker tricks Zack into revealing the location of the other X5 escapees, Max must warn her friends of the danger before it's too late.
"Female Trouble" Lydecker dispatches an X5 named Jace to eliminate a doctor who is using research gleaned from her years at Manticore to help Logan walk.
"Haven" While staying at a remote cabin, Logan searches for an former police officer involved in the murders of several protestors, while Max befriends a young boy haunted by his past.
"Shorties in Love" Max finds herself at odds with Original Cindy's old girlfriend, Diamond, who believes she hasn't long to live.
"Pollo Loco" Max pursues an X5 suspected of murdering several innocent people.
"I and I Am a Camera" Max befriends an off-the-wall crime fighter as she investigates the strange deaths of several parolees, a search that puts Logan's fortune at great risk.
"Hit a Sista Back" With some help from Max and Zack, Tinga battles Lydecker's soldiers as she attempts to rescue her son, who possesses special powers.
"Meow" Max finds she's once again "in heat"; the power struggle between Lydecker and Madame X continues, as both race to find Max; Max and Zack search for Tinga.
"...And Jesus Brought a Casserole" Lydecker joins the escaped X5s in a plan to blow up Manticore.
Dark Angel Season 2
"Designate This" Max escapes from Manticore and triggers Operation Pale Face, in which Manticore self-destructs, obliterating all traces of its existence.
"Bag 'em" A clean-up operation tries to kill all the occupants who escaped when Manticore self-destructed. Max, feeling responsible, tries to save them.
"Proof of Purchase" Max tracks Joshua to Sandeman's former residence. Lydecker discovers a secret archeological dig of a Kiloma Indian burial site that is somehow connected to Manticore. Alec is captured and nearly killed by Ames White, but Max saves him.
"Radar Love" Lonely and frustrated that they cannot be together, Max and Logan reach out to other people. Manticore creates a pathogen that can target and kill a specific race, with the ultimate aim of using it to wipe out transgenics.
"Boo" Max spends a wacky Halloween with other transgenics, chasing a headless body in an attempt to foil an assassination plot.
"Two" A creature described as a man-dog is attacking and killing cops, and Max discovers that one of Joshua's brothers is behind the attacks; Alec gets hired at Jam Pony and runs into trouble when his black-market business selling synthetic hormone riles local thugs.
"Some Assembly Required" Max discovers that her brother, Zack, is alive and living with a group of Steelheads — but he is not the same Zack she remembers.
"Gill Girl" When a group of fisherman find a girl with gills in one of their nets, they believe they've caught a mermaid. But Max and Alec soon realize the mermaid is actually another Manticore escapee, and they set out to rescue her.
"Medium Is the Message" Eyes Only agrees to help a a woman try to find her kidnapped son, but Logan and Max are stunned to learn that the woman is Ames White's wife; trouble arises when Alec takes advantage of Joshua's apparent talent as an artist.
"Brainiac" After an S1W cell is busted, Max discovers a man named Brainiac, who seems able to predict the future.
"The Berrisford Agenda" Alec stumbles across a troubling reminder of his past as a Manticore agent and is haunted by memories of the girl he fell in love with — and killed.
"Borrowed Time" Max finds a temporary cure for the virus that targets Logan; Joshua discovers that a Manticore-made "sniffer" is loose.
"Harbor Lights" Max is shot and rushed to a hospital, where her blood work reveals some strange anomalies that tips Ames White to her location.
"Love in Vein" Max stumbles upon a group of apparent transgenics who survive by drinking their leader's blood. At Jam Pony, Alec covertly assigns Joshua to make deliveries for him.
"Fuhgeddaboutit" When Logan asks Max to help him get a mob accountant to become a police informant, she runs into a fellow Manticore alum with unusual powers.
"Exposure" After Logan traces a call, he and Max find Ames White's son, Ray, enrolled in a mysterious school.
"Hello, Goodbye" Logan touches Max and nearly dies from the virus; Alec is arrested for murder; White discovers that the transgenics are immune to his cult's snake blood and arranges to have the Manticore experiment exposed.
"Dawg Day Afternoon" With Ames White's help, the news is full of reports of transgenics. When Joshua leaves his house to see Annie, he is spotted, and further chaos erupts.
"She Ain't Heavy" As their secret identities are increasingly revealed, Max, Joshua and Logan leave town for Terminal City. Ames White captures a transgenic that he thinks is Max but is actually her clone.
"Love Among the Runes" An escapee from an insane asylum infiltrates the transgenic society in Terminal City; White's operatives discover a way to identify transgenics in a crowd.
"Freak Nation"(90 minutes) After Max and other transgenics are trapped by police in Jam Pony, White brings in a special team sent by the breeding cult, intending to kill Max and all the others.
They designed her to be the perfect soldier, a human weapon … then she escaped. In a future not far from now, in a broken world, she is haunted by her past. She cannot run, she must fight … to discover her destiny.
Max (Jessica Alba) is a genetically enhanced human prototype known as an "X5," or "transgenic." Following her escape from a top-secret military program known as Manticore, she is hunted by her former handler,the ruthless Colonel Donald Michael Lydecker (John Savage), through the edgy, underground counterculture of 21st-century Seattle.Living in hiding and ever fearful of being recaptured, Max pursues a lonely and perilous mission to reunite with her transgenic "siblings," who scattered following their joint escape from Manticore. Max is aided in her quest by Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly), an idealistic cyber-journalist battling repression and corruption in the ruins of a world in decline.