Genital herpes is a common sexually transmitted viral infection often causing sores and blisters around the lips, genitals or anus, wherever the virus first enters the body. Genital herpes can be ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Genital herpes is a common and incurable sexually transmitted disease (STD). It’s so prevalent in the United States that about 1 in 6 people ages 14 to 49 have it. More American women than men have ...

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People with genital herpes can transmit the virus to partners even when they do not have lesions, new research shows. This has been suspected before, but "the data here looks really robust," said Fred ...

Patients aged ≥ 18 years with HSV culture-positive persistent (i.e. non-healing) herpetic lesions or who were experiencing culture-positive HSV recurrences (≥ 1 every other month) from seven centres ...

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin ...

Monkeypox causes a rash that can look similar to other illnesses such as acne, herpes or syphilis. Two dermatologists told Insider the key differences between monkeypox and seven other rashes.

A total of 18 patients with active herpes lesions were enrolled in the study; 13 patients were immunocompetent and five were immunocompromised (HIV/AIDS; n = 4; cancer leukaemia; n = 1). Overall, five ...