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I always thought negatives was people who either haven’t had sex yet or haven’t had sex outside a closed loop. I’d be interested to see percentage effected nor
by cjbgkagh 5y ago
I always thought negatives was people who either haven’t had sex yet or haven’t had sex outside a closed loop.
I’d be interested to see percentage effected normalized by number of partners. (Not interested enough to look it up now though)
- vsef 5y agoThe viruses listed by parent aren't spread sexually, though they are all herpes viruses. EBV is also known as HSV-4 and gets to 60% plus prevalence in children, 90% in US adults. If there are populations with especially low prevalence I'm not aware of it. HSV-1 which causes mouth cold sores is present in 50-80% of people, also easily acquired in childhood. Only 20-40% of infected people get cold sores so most infected people don't realize they have it. Chicken pox/shingles is also a type of herpes virus with well known massive prevalence! Genital herpes is just one of many types of herpes viruses that affect humans.
- cjbgkagh 5y agoOops, I thought the 90% was referring to HPV.