genital herpes

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Preventive Services Task Force doesn’t recommend routine genital herpes screenings for people without symptoms, in part because false positive rates are so high.

From New York Times

The upcoming study is expected to be observer blinded and placebo-controlled, with the patients including 100 healthy volunteers who do not have any current or past history of symptomatic genital herpes infections.

From Salon

Type 2 can cause genital herpes, which is spread via sexual contact.

From Salon

With newborns, the virus can be passed on either by a kiss or by the mother if she has had genital herpes for the first time, within the last six weeks of pregnancy.

From Fox News

I had always practised safe sex, but contracted genital herpes eight years ago.

From The Guardian