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Health Encyclopedia: Herpes Simplex Risk Factors

Risk Factors

Everyone is at risk for herpes simplex virus. According to the latest U.S. data from 1999 - 2004, 57.7% of Americans ages 14 49 years are infected with the HSV-1 virus, the main cause of oral herpes and some cases of genital herpes. About 17% of Americans in the same age range test positive for the HSV-2 virus, the main cause of genital herpes. Infection rates for both viruses have declined since the late 1980s. However, infection is lifelong, so once a person is infected, he or she...

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Expert & Community Posts

How Does HIV/AIDS Dementia Differ from Alzheimer's?

By Christine Kennard , Health Expert

...disease that has reversed the trend and that is HIV/AIDS. It is the statistical increase that is... Read more »

Advanced Viral Research Corp. Granted Patent for New RA Drug

By Christine Miller , Health Expert

...patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),... Read more »

Potent Anti-HIV Drugs Associated with Arthritis

By Christine Miller , Health Expert

...Rheumatology meeting in Washington and discussed on Aidsmap, shows that arthritis and connective... Read more »

How Does Alzheimer's Differ from Other Types of Dementia?

By Christine Kennard , Health Expert

...Body dementia, Pick's disease, dementia due to HIV/AIDS, dementia caused by traumatic head... Read more »

The AIDS Vaccine: None in Sight: What Now?

By healthgal , Health Expert

The most recent AIDs vaccine trials have not yielded success, in terms of discovering a vaccine... Read more »

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STD Symptoms

...serious STD for which no effective treatment or cure now exists is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a fatal viral infection of the immune system. Major Types Diseases that can be... Read more »

Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three: How HIV Tests Work

...yourself, you also protect those around you from becoming infected. Should I Get Tested? In a lecture on AIDS, an infectious disease specialist was asked how he determined whether to test a... Read more »

Herpes Simplex: Medications

...resistance to acyclovir and similar drugs, particularly in immunocompromised patients (such as those with AIDS). Some experts believe, however, that the prevalence of drug-resistant viruses will... Read more »

Anemia: Introduction

...to iron and reduce its availability in the intestine, causing iron deficiency anemia.Medications (NSAIDs). Aspirin and drugs such as ibuprofen and naproxen are called nonsteroidal... Read more »

Periodontal Disease: Risk Factors

...days.HIV-Associated Gingivitis. HIV-associated gingivitis has been reported in 15 - 50% of patients with HIV or AIDS. HIV-positive individuals harbor larger numbers of periodontal bacteria... Read more »

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