Probably have you hitherto endured a runny nose? Probably did you recover from the virus? Naturally you recovered! You won't heal a common cold directly, nevertheless your system normally develops resistance to a specific cold infection within a couple of days. We call that cured by your own immune system!HPV is the same in that human papilloma virus is just an additional virus. Therefore you could quite simply develop immunity to human papilloma virus. However, HPV virus is much better at evading your immune system than are the runny nose viruses. So you have to try a little harder to develop resistance to HPV virus.