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I'm just making this up, but it seems possible that having oral herpes confers some resistance to getting genital herpes?

• robbrown451 11y ago
  Yes, but only to getting the "oral kind of herpes" genitally...
• function_seven 11y ago
  That's my assumption. Once you have it, you have antibodies to it as well, which prevent new cases. But you're still stuck with it in the original place, because the virus's genome hides out where the antibodies can't get it, then from time-to-time it decides to go on a rampage. IANAI (Immunologist)