Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Why Everyone Needs A Blood Test For Herpes

I have herpes, don?t you?
You don?t?
Are you sure?
I wouldn?t be so sure if I were you.
Unless you have had a recent type-specific blood test to test for the presence of herpes simplex antibodies you cannot say with any certainty that you don?t have herpes.
You think that only 20% of the population has herpes?
Think again.
You may have heard that one out of every five people has herpes, but that number is untrue and a distortion of the facts. The truth is that at least 60% of the adult population has herpes.
Some people for reasons known only to them decided to exclude people who get herpes above the waist- people who get so-called ?cold sores? on their mouths and faces, from the herpes statistics commonly reported in the media, then r View the rest of this article


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