STD e-cards: You've got mail ? and maybe something else San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - Nov 26, 2008 It is estimated that 1 in 4 Americans are infected with Herpes, 20 million men and women are infected with HPV, more than one million new cases of Chlamydia ...
STD Numbers Continue To Increase In Lubbock County KCBD-TV, TX - Nov 26, 2008 He said it's Genital Herpes," Riojas said. However Eilda is not alone. "There is a rumor floating around that Lubbock is number one for a number of the ...
Managing Post-Transplant Infections Renal and Urology News, NY - Nov 26, 2008 ?Some are related to technical issues with the surgery itself, and some have to do with early reactivation of herpes simplex virus (HSV) or yeast. ...
So, uh, mom ... we need to chat Globe and Mail, Canada - Nov 27, 2008 "When we grew up in the fifties and sixties, the worst that could happen was herpes," Ms. Price said. "By the time HIV broke out, most of the people in my ...
'Top Model' recap: Camera ready Entertainment Weekly - Nov 20, 2008 It's like, Dude, please don't have herpes." I'll miss you, Sam. After Mr. Jay moaned about Sam's uncharacteristic lack of energy, it was McKey's turn in ...
When You Need a Flu Shot at 3 AM New York Times, United States - Nov 10, 2008 So far, Dr. Strauss said, there has been a run of urinary tract infections, chest pain, abdominal pain, internal bleeding and genital herpes. ...
Free Condom Friday! Brooklyn Heights Blog, NY - Nov 11, 2008 ... only thing on the rise in New York City ? according to The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 1 in 4 New Yorkers has genital herpes. ...
Tucker Max's Movie Script Gawker, NY - I also could have said "like herpes," and I could also follow up by joking that the script is about as funny as a bad lawyer with herpes, haha. ...
Genital herpes Planet Thrive, NY - Aug 2, 2008 I have genital herpes and am also chemically sensitive. I have had very few outbreaks, and usually cannot even see a sore at all when I have the pain in my ...
Local and international press digest Times of Malta, Malta - Paris Match reports that Paris Herpes is killing young oysters because they have spent their energy developing their sexual organs instead of their natural ...
Losing sleep over FDA's quinine ban Seattle Times, United States - Aug 3, 2008 I had no idea it was used for anything else until I read that it is used for herpes. I thought this would be comforting for the woman who wrote to you that ...
Senator blasts GlaxoSmithKline-sponsored herpes med ed Medical Marketing and Media, NY - Jul 31, 2008 ?However, routine testing for herpes in pregnancy is not recommended by any scientific evidence or any national expert panel,? wrote Kohl in a June 20 ...
Cracked corners of lips can have several causes Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 3, 2008 Q.I am 70 years old and have recurrent episodes of herpes simplex on my leg and also my back. I am wondering if getting the herpes zoster vaccine (the ...
Stepbrother acts like brat San Bernardino Sun, CA - He puts loose change in my drinks, bumps into me when we pass each other and started a rumor in school that I have herpes. The last straw was when he put ...
Preventing Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia: Are Your ... Medscape (subscription) - Jul 30, 2008 Review the epidemiology and disease burden of herpes zoster and its most common complication, PHN. Discuss the benefits and limitations of current treatment ...
Genital herpes therapy effective if begun early Reuters UK, UK - Jul 16, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treatment to suppress outbreaks of genital herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection is typically begun once a recurrence ...
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The number of people with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), which causes most cases of genital herpes, has increased thirty percent in the last twenty years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in five American adolescents and adults are now infected-an estimated forty-five million people-and eighty to ninety percent of those infected do not know they have it.
Below, Dr. Adam Stracher and Dr. Brian Boyle of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center discuss the symptoms and prevalence of HSV-2. Q: What are the symptoms of genital herpes?
BRIAN BOYLE, MD: Genital herpes generally start with a blister-type rash that is itchy or painful, which then may progress, when the blisters break, into an ulcerative type of rash. If the rash is not treated, it may continue for a week or two.
Q: How prevalent is HSV-2?
BRIAN BOYLE, MD: Thirty to fifty percent of college-age kids these days have herpes. It is thought that approximately forty-five million people in the United States carry the virus.
Q: How many of those forty-five million people are symptomatic?
BRIAN BOYLE, MD: Probably twenty-five percent of those infected will never have any symptoms, and seventy-five percent have intermittent symptoms. That is, they may have a lesion that lasts a week or two but then goes away. Some people have a lesion every few weeks or so, and these episodes can be brought on by things such as stress or menstruation. Other people may go a year or two, or longer, without having a repeat of their lesions. So, it is variable.
Q: Why are some people symptomatic and others not?
ADAM STRACHER, MD: We do not completely understand why some people never develop symptoms. In this case, the concern is the risk of spread. The majority of the spread of herpes comes when people are not symptomatic. Also, those who do develop intermittent symptoms continue to shed virus even when they don't have any sores or lesions.
Q: When is herpes most contagious?
ADAM STRACHER, MD: It is definitely more contagious and infectious when people have lesions, but it is still contagious when people do not have lesions. It has been proven very recently that the majority of these infections are spread during the time when there are no symptoms or lesions.
Q: Why is the spread of herpes more common when people are not symptomatic?
ADAM STRACHER, MD: There is a misperception that you cannot spread herpes when you do not have lesions. Also, there may be months or years between symptomatic episodes, so the asymptomatic periods are far longer than the symptomatic times. Therefore, statistically, more people are infected in those periods simply because they are far longer periods of time. BRIAN BOYLE, MD: Another reason why more people are infected during asymptomatic periods is that sex can be very painful with a lesion. For women, it not only affects the vulva, but it may also may affect the vagina. So people who have herpes lesions are less likely to be having sex.
Conclusion
Herpes has become one of the most common viral infections in the United States today, with half a million new cases diagnosed each year. The good news is that even though there is still no cure, treatment for herpes has improved significantly, and for many, herpes is a manageable nuisance. The wisest advice for the sexually active is this: use a condom. Laboratory studies have shown that the herpes virus does not pass through latex condoms. When properly used, latex condoms will reduce your risk of spreading or getting herpes
