Reply To: Understanding the Risks of spreading the virus

[Lost and Confused]

I have a follow-up question and believe I need to pay, but don’t see an option to do that. Please let me know how do I pay for the follow-up questions

My question is as follows:

Ironically a week after my thigh scratching incident which had me worried that I had infected my son, he now has flu-like symptoms (cough, fever, swollen glands in the neck, etc.). The rational side of me says it’s typical child illness. The irrational worrisome me says its a result of the incident a week ago. My question is during an initial outbreak if there are flu-like symptoms would this also include blisters/sores or could you just have the flu symptoms? Additionally does the herpes sores always present themselves in the area where the initial infection take place (i.e. on the nose in this case).

I’m really trying to get better with this and was actually starting to feel better, but this illness, especially given the timing has me worried all over again.