Just thought this would be a useful question. I read Dr Handfields response on a few forumns regarding herpes.
He stated that chances of catching it were 1 in 1000 if the other person was known to be affected. I mean this is quite a lot possibility. He went on to say for a single exposure with a condom it has a effect of around 80-90% additional prevention. So a person who has intercourse with an affected person while wearing a condom has about a 1 in 8-9000 chance of catching the virus.
With these figures and the many responses stating how difficult it is to catch it throws me to hear that 1 in every 5 americans have it. Something about these 2 statistics don't add up.
I would really need to have unprotected sex with 1000 women to be liable of catching this which seems a very high number.
How can these 2 stats be compared in that case. Perhaps one is a UK stat and the other an American?