Herpes Handbook

Herpes Transmission


Herpes is spread by direct contact including:

Sexual contact

Anal sex

Oral sex

Vaginal sex

as well as

Kissing

Skin-to-skin contact which transmits HSV-1 and HSV-2

Genital herpes

Can be transmitted with or without the presence of sores or other symptoms

Is often transmitted by people who do not realize infection can be passed on even when there are no symptoms

Is often transmitted by people unaware they are infected

Statistics

An estimated 40 million people have genital herpes which is a chronic viral infection

About 500,000 new people get symptomatic herpes each year

There are even more people without symptoms

Genital herpes infection

has increased 30% in the U.S.

has increased most dramatically among young white teens (12-19 years old)

among whites is 5 times higher than 20 years ago

is twice as likely to infect 20-29 year old adults

Source: http://www.herpes-coldsores.com/std/herpes.htm

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How Did You Get Herpes?

Perhaps from time to time you ask himself or herself: how did it happen? How did I get this awful disease?

I’ve found out that herpes spreads through intimate skin contact with an infected person. The bad news is that the virus transmission can occur when the infected person does not even have any visual symptoms of herpes – blisters or ulcers or some other things like that! Some people may never have any symptoms and may not know that they are infected with the herpes virus at all! Unfortunately they can still transmit the herpes virus to others people.

Do you like kissing? I think so because it’s so pleasant. So am I but… Do you know that oral herpes can be spread through kissing??? Terrible!

So I thing everything is clear about oral herpes. But what about more awful disease? I mean genital herpes…

It’s natural that genital herpes is transmitted through sexual contact. Remember, any sexual contact! Vaginal, anal, oral! Can you imagine that the virus can be transmitted from oral to genital regions and vice versa during oral sex??? But that is the case.

So what to do? You have to be careful of course in order to protect yourself. But if the herpes virus transmission has happened already… Keep reading!

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