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Thursday, January, 08, 2009

The Truth About HSV1, HSV2, and Oral Sex

by  Charlotte Grayson, M.D.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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You have genital HSV-1.  Can you give your partner a genital  HSV-1 with genital sex?

Yep.  But not as easily as it istransmitted through oral sex. Remember.  The mouth is the preferred site for HSV-1 infection and the virus sheds less often outside its site of preference.  A study in 1995 shows that about 25% of people with asumptomatic genital HSV-1 shed virus vs.55% of people with genital HSV-2.

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