What a time to be alive!
“That amounts to roughly 3.7 billion people with an incurable virus. Doctors say the majority never see an outbreak.”
The larger issue “...incurable virus...” blame healthcare supplanting medicine.
KYPD
I read her blog. It’s vomit inducing. It’s “all about me, I’m a drama queen, I’m skanky and I like it, I have an STD and I’m proud of it, and there’s something wrong with you if you don’t want to risk catching herpes from me”.
The girl is an ignoramus....calling HSV 1 an STD is ridiculous. HSV 1 is a cold sore virus and is most typically spread by sneezing, sharing cups, and kisses (as in grandma kissing a baby). Unlike HSV 2, it isn’t transmitted primarily by sexual intercourse. Non-STD herpes viruses include the viruses for chicken pox and shingles. BTW, I’ve seen estimates that up to 90% of us were exposed to HSV 1 by about age 6. In any event, I think the inclusion of HSV 1 is intended to “shame” people without STDs into “accepting” real STDs as “normal” and not “stigma worthy”.
“HSV-1 is the more prevalent virus, with 65% of persons in the United States having antibodies to HSV-1 (Xu et al., 2002). The epidemiology in Europe is similar, with at least half of the population seropositive for HSV-1. In the developing world, HSV-1 is almost universal, and usually acquired from intimate contact with family in early childhood (Whitley et al., 1998). After childhood, the HSV-1 prevalence rates increase minimally with age.”