A molluscum is a benign viral infection that causes small bumps like little craters the same colour of the skin. The cause of molluscum is a virus that is transmitted by a skin to skin contact. It's not considered a venerial disease, although it can be transmitted, but it's not the principal way of transmission. So, it's really by a skin to skin contact. The symptoms ittle bumps appear two to seven weeks after the contact. It can go all over the body so you can have it on the face, on the body, in the genital area, on the abdomen, on the buttocks, so it's very important to avoid touching or picking at the lesions because they can spread to other parts of the body. It's easily diagnosed, it's usually a visual examination, it really looks like a small, like a mollusc, it's a little bump with a little crater. So the doctors, usually, are used to seeing that. Sometimes we'll have to do a biopsy, wich is not painful, by the way. Because sometimes it can be mixed with some skin cancer, although it's quite rare. But it's important to make, to have a specific diagnosis to have the correct treatment. Even if you don't treat it, it will go away, but it can take as long as six to eight months so most poeple will like to get treated as quickly as possible because you're contagious all this time. There is three principal ways to treat them, one is to freeze them with a very cold liquid called liquid nitrogen, so that kills the virus and the lesions go away, or you can use a laser treatment, or you can remove them with a small curette. You remove them all individually, cause the virus is in the little bumps so if you remove the bumps, then the virus goes away. To prevent the infection, for the other parts of the body is to avoid contact with someone who has the infection, because, then you can get it that way.