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HSV1 study contradicts what may websites state.
Study out of UW - taken from their research article:
They enrolled 82 men and women who had been diagnosed with their first episode of genital HSV-1 infection. Fifty-four (66%) were women and 28 (34%) were men. Their ages ranged from 16 to 64 years, with a median age of 26. Antibody studies indicated that about half of the participants had been infected with HSV-1 before.
It's the last sentence that I'm questioning. If the people in the study were first episode GHSV1 how is it that half the participants already had antibodies for HSV-1 before?
I thought that once someone has hsv1 in one location on their body it is highly unlikey that they would get the virus in a new location?
This seems to contradict everything else I have read??
They enrolled 82 men and women who had been diagnosed with their first episode of genital HSV-1 infection. Fifty-four (66%) were women and 28 (34%) were men. Their ages ranged from 16 to 64 years, with a median age of 26. Antibody studies indicated that about half of the participants had been infected with HSV-1 before.
It's the last sentence that I'm questioning. If the people in the study were first episode GHSV1 how is it that half the participants already had antibodies for HSV-1 before?
I thought that once someone has hsv1 in one location on their body it is highly unlikey that they would get the virus in a new location?
This seems to contradict everything else I have read??
Please don't keep creating new threads for every comment or question you have about HSV. Just add on to one of your existing threads.
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