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Every single second around the world, someone is infected with genital herpes. This adds up to 42 million new cases a year, and about 200 additional people affected by the time you finish reading this post. This startling statistic was released by the World Health Organization earlier this week.
Genital herpes is a common sexually transmitted infection, caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Its expression varies from no symptoms, through mild ones to recurrent genital ulcers. Once contracted, the virus is lifelong, remaining latent or inactive in one’s nerve cells between recurrent outbreaks of ulcers. Currently, there is no cure.
HSV belongs to the human Herpesviridae family, consisting of other common DNA viruses such as Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), Cytomegalovirus...
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