Concerned about going to concert and catching herpes

[Jdis]

Hi everyone,

Please let me know if I'm in need of being educated. I'm a little concerned about going to a music festival with 150000+ plus people (EDC if you were wondering). It is said that herpes can be spread thru skin to skin contact. What if im walking through he crowd and someone with herpes brushes up against me with their affected area? Im gonna be paranoid at the event!

Just read through a bunch of articles that during this years coachella, there were about 200+ reports of Herpes incident. Any insight in this will be greatly appreciated.

[auntiejessi]

I just read the reports of herpes at Coachella. It doesn't make a lot of sense, really - "during the first 2 days of Coachella, the site serviced almost 250 patients!!!" (From TMZ and HerpAlert) Herpes has an incubation period of 2-20 days, (the average is 3-6 days), so if someone has herpes symptoms the first 2 days of the festival, they came infected - they didn't get it there.

[Jdis]

Thank you for clearing this up! I feel much better now!

Also read just recently that those claims were false from a more recent news.

[auntiejessi]

Ahh that makes a lot more sense. I also thought later that herpes isn't reportable, so how would they know this, especially that quickly?

Anyway, glad to have helped!

[auntiejessi]

When people refer to skin-to-skin contact and herpes, they mean oral-to-oral, oral-to-genital, or genital-to-genital skin, and it requires some friction. It's not casual contact. Herpes is only infectious from the location of infection - the mouth or genitals. If it were easy to transmit, everyone would have it.

Unless you are kissing someone, having oral sex with someone, or having some form of genital to genital contact without clothing, you'll be safe at the festival.

[Jdis]

Anyone?