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Most people have herpes!!
In the U.S: 54% of 14-49 people have Herpes simplex 1. Worldwide: 60%-90% 80% of people with Herpes don't know about it. haha! Who here has it? it's a safe environment. Sources. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/04/la … tal-herpes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24136792 http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/1 … _1/S3.long Aug 21 14 02:59 pm Link You think MM is a safe environment to disclose a highly stigmatized STD? Thats cute. Aug 21 14 03:07 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: Aug 21 14 03:10 pm Link Oh here go hell come. Aug 21 14 03:25 pm Link Herpes is considered 'endemic' in the US, meaning it's a totally normal finding in the general population; like the common cold. What is really scary, is that HPV is transmitted the same way, can be active every day for a life time, and the infected individual may not know it. The physical symptoms of HPV can be zilch, no pain, no discomfort. Given the facts, HPV has to be way more prevalent than Herpes. (The official infection rates have to be false lows.) And HPV, the wrong variant, is so closely associated with cervical cancer that it is now considered to 'cause' the cancer. In other words, the cause of cervical cancer has to be 'normal' in the US population. I fully expect cervical cancer to skyrocket in the near future, especially after a decade of a poor economy and people not getting check-ups or preventative care. Treatment of cervical cancer has a very high success rate, and even has a 'cure' rate, if caught early. If not caught early, treatment is simply delaying death. Aug 21 14 03:33 pm Link I'm more worried that exactly 100% of the girls in the world have cooties. Aug 21 14 03:50 pm Link Whenever I buy new shoes I get blisters on my heels, so I make an appointment with Planned Parenthood. Where are these statistics derived from? Private medical records? Public survey? Aug 21 14 03:57 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: well if most people have it then the stigma should be defeated? Aug 21 14 04:32 pm Link r T p wrote: i needs to know Aug 21 14 04:34 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: What should happen and what does happen are two completely different things Aug 21 14 04:52 pm Link r T p wrote: ahaha Aug 21 14 04:54 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: agreed Aug 21 14 04:55 pm Link Aug 21 14 05:02 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: Seems like one person here is perpetuating the stigma while the other doesn't really care about it and just wants to post an interesting fact. Aug 21 14 05:21 pm Link Never been tested but I reckon I've caught at least two herpes virus and one of them is very likely to be HSV1. As I have mentioned before most people are asymptomatic, which is not the same as not being infected. And chicken pox is herpes. (Oh shit guys, it's almost two in the morning, don't get me started researching infectious diseases again, too interesting for the early hours of the morning) Aug 21 14 05:46 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: You didn't just post a fun fact, you asked people to disclose personal sexual information to the public under the guise that mm is a safe and judge-free environment to do so. Aug 21 14 05:53 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: YOU MEAN IT'S NOT? Aug 21 14 05:56 pm Link JadeDRed wrote: and cold sores Aug 21 14 05:57 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: HSV-1 is the principal cause of cold sores. Worldwide: 60%-90% That's HSV-1, not HSV-2, the principal cause of genital herpes. 80% of people with Herpes don't know about it. That's because HSV-1 is an innocuous infection in the great majority of people. haha! Who here has it? I'm sure you do. Aug 21 14 06:16 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: I think you ought get your facts straight about herpes. Aug 21 14 06:26 pm Link Cherrystone wrote: What, exactly, are the facts she's missing about herpes? Aug 21 14 06:27 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: lol mm isn't a safe and judge-free environment?! crap! i have been mislead Aug 21 14 06:41 pm Link Tony-S wrote: Allen Carbon wrote: HSV-1 is the principal cause of cold sores. Worldwide: 60%-90% That's HSV-1, not HSV-2, the principal cause of genital herpes. 80% of people with Herpes don't know about it. That's because HSV-1 is an innocuous infection in the great majority of people. Quote 1. okay Aug 21 14 06:43 pm Link JadeDRed wrote: Lol is chicken pox herpes?! I didn't know! see everyone. These are fun facts. Let's have fun with them. Aug 21 14 06:43 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: Yeah! Discussions about STIs are fun! Aug 21 14 06:47 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: i think the more we say it, the less power the word will have. Aug 21 14 06:54 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: It will always be a very personal matter. It will never be "fun." Aug 21 14 06:55 pm Link I regularly give blood. I'm pretty sure they'd tell me if I did. Aug 21 14 06:56 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: Oh wait did we stop being sarcastic? I didn't get the memo. Aug 21 14 06:58 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: Just a random question about blood giving. I regularly give blood here in NZ, i'm up to 18. We can only give blood after 3 months. Aug 21 14 06:59 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: Question 10 http://www.blood.ca/CentreApps/Internet … enDocument Aug 21 14 07:01 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: Not all herpes is chicken pox... What don't you understand? Aug 21 14 07:02 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: You can get paid, depending on where you donate. I usually give at blood drives at work. I get paid in orange juice and a small pack of dry chocolate chip cookies. Occasionally I get something cool like a red-cross or MASH style insulated bag, but my sister claims those. Aug 21 14 07:10 pm Link Allen Carbon wrote: Herpes and chicken pox belong to the same family of viruses, but that does not make them the same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpesviridae Aug 21 14 07:13 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: Our high school did blood drives and I tried to do them every time just to get out of class, but I didn't weigh enough at the time. Someone brought doughnuts once Aug 21 14 07:14 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: NZ gives gifts depending on how much you've given. From memory it was, Aug 21 14 07:23 pm Link I had chicken pox growing up...so I guess I've had herpes since I was about five years old. =P Oh...and I had a cold sore like 6 months ago. Even more herpes! Oh no, the horror! Aug 21 14 08:56 pm Link So, a large percentage of the population that have had cold sores are just lumped in those statistics? Aug 21 14 09:00 pm Link Vintagevista wrote: Yup, cold sores and/or chicken pox. I really don't know the stats but I would be willing to bet that a significant percentage of people with herpes did not receive it sexually. Aug 21 14 09:03 pm Link Vintagevista wrote: Apparently so. According to CDC, the rate of genital herpes in Americans 14-49 is about 1 in 6. Aug 21 14 09:12 pm Link |