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Reply To: Hsv1 genital vs oral

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March 19, 2022 at 12:07 pm #76868
Terri Warren
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That’s a great question and there is no way to know with 100% certainty. However, HSV 1 strongly prefers the oral area over the genital area, so I think if she was infected orally, she would likely recur there. that is more likely than genital recurrences, actually. Given that half the population has HSV 1, 70% don’t know it and the standard test misses 30% of HSV 1 infections compared to the western blot, it is truly a crap shoot when someone says “I don’t have the cold sore virus”. At least, with this person, they know and can do things to reduce transmission to a partner, like taking daily antiviral medicine, as an option

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