genital herpes

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Preventive Services Task Force doesn’t recommend routine genital herpes screenings for people without symptoms, in part because false positive rates are so high.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023

HSV-1 is linked to oral herpes, while HSV-2 is linked to genital herpes, although both can exhibit outbreaks in other parts of the body.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2022

Weissman and virus expert Harvey Friedman of the University of Pennsylvania found targetable antigens for genital herpes.

From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2021

In the first half of the 20th century, genital herpes was not on the public radar, and it wasn’t even recognized as a discrete type of herpes infection until the 1960s.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019

For genital herpes, drugs such as acyclovir can reduce the number and duration of the episodes of active viral disease during which patients develop viral lesions in their skins cells.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013