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Article: Genital herpes: what patients might not know.(Infectious Diseases)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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- Skin & Allergy News
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- May 1, 2008
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Boston -- "Genital herpes is a recurrent, lifelong viral disease. This is the one thing that patients and clinicians don't like to say, but there's no way around" it, Laura J. Mulcahy said at a conference on contraceptive technology sponsored by Contemporary Forums.
Other difficult truths about infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2? The overwhelming majority of people infected with the virus don't know that they have it, and people with asymptomatic or unrecognized disease shed the virus intermittently in the genital tract, said Ms. Mulcahy, a certified family nurse practitioner who is assistant medical director of the STD Center for Excellence at ...