Reply To: Oral hsv 2 – terri please

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Sorry terri – not extra questions but more queries re some of the info you have provided.

You have previously stated on medhelp –

In a person with ONLY HSV 2 orally, who is HIV negative, shedding occurs on about 1% of days in a year. That’s about 3 days. If the infection is only oral, then it isn’t shed from the genital area. It is not likely to be transmitted through kissing because of the lack of oral shedding.

This differs from the info you gave me.

Also if the low transmission rate is not mechanical but due to low oral shedding rate – why don’t more people acquire it genital to orally? As the low oral shedding rate is n/a ?