[DManA]

I started getting cold sores when I was a child. I presume I got it from my parents.

About 80 percent of American adults have oral herpes (cold sores).

http://www.globalherbalsupplies.com/herpes/stats.html

[peeps36]

My grandmother use to get cold sores and she suffered from Alzheimers the last ten years of her life. I worry about my father now that he's getting older. I don't want to see him suffer that way. Alzheimers is a horrible disease that hurts the victim and the family.