According to the findings, more than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the global population are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). This is contained in the WHO’s first global estimates of HSV-1 infection published on the 28th October this year in the journal PLOS ONE..
The WHO also estimates that 417 million people aged 15-49 years have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). The kind that causes painful genital herpes. The worst part of all this however is that the infected people don’t know about it. Why? Because doctors rarely screen for it, meaning it can go undetected.
It’s “thought of as a disease only the promiscuous and cheating-types get, and is a popular joke topic,” Jon Fortenbury ”wrote in The Atlantic in 2014. “All of this insecurity, discouragement, rejection, tears, anger, counseling, suicidal tendencies, humiliation, shame, and isolation is caused by the stigma of a skin condition that usually doesn’t show up most or even all of the year and can be contracted after having protected sex one time,” viralthread reports.
Herpes simplex virus is categorized into 2 types: herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 are highly infectious and incurable. HSV-1 is primarily transmitted by oral-oral contact and in most cases causes orolabial herpes or “cold sores” around the mouth. HSV-2 is almost entirely sexually transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, causing genital herpes. Read Full Research Finding Here
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