People With Herpes - Quick Facts about Herpes

Quick Facts about Herpes

Herpes simplex virus can cause small blisters or sores on the mouth or genitals.
About 80 percent of American adults have oral herpes (cold sores).
An estimated 25 percent of adults in the United States have genital herpes. Most don’t know it because their symptoms are too mild to notice.
Herpes is most easily spread during an active outbreak or during prodrome --the few days just before an outbreak.
Herpes can be uncomfortable but it is not considered to be a dangerous virus.
Herpes does not effect the immune system. It is rare to have any health problems from herpes.
Herpes can be spread even when no symptoms are present.
The surest way to prevent the spread of genital herpes is to avoid sex during an active outbreak.
Using condoms between outbreaks reduces the risk of transmission.
Most couples decide together how to reduce the risk.

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Cuyahoga judge criticizes Northcoast treatment center over mentally ill woman's care (The Plain Dealer)
A Cuyahoga County judge has criticized a state-run treatment center for failing to prevent a mentally ill woman from having sex with other patients.

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Small grower and farmers market vendor from Tucson, Tom Savath, picks fava beans which he loves both fresh and stir fried from Agua Linda Farm.

The many lives of Liza Minnelli (Khaleej Times)
YEARS AGO, a colleague suffered the worst of journalistic embarrassments: he interviewed Meryl Streep and failed to notice that she was not Meryl Streep.

Virus Hijacks Cell Division Machinery (Medical News Today)
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Homeopathic couple challenge court's jurisdiction (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
A middle-aged couple who profess to have homeopathic cures for diseases including herpes, bird flu and smallpox are challenging a court's jurisdiction to hear a case against them.

Mom's infection may boost epilepsy risk in offspring (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Exposure to certain maternal infections in the womb increases the odds of epilepsy in childhood, according to an analysis of data from a Danish study. Among the infections cited were cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), pyelonephritis (inflammation of the kidney and upper urinary tract), and vaginal yeast infection.

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