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It's just they haven't got the virus yet. Or the viral load is too low to be detectable by current technique.
by feverzsj 2y ago
It's just they haven't got the virus yet. Or the viral load is too low to be detectable by current technique.
- minitech 2y agoWe have ways to test for latent HSV (antibodies, not viral load), which prevalence estimates are informed by. And yeah, anyone who doesn’t have a virus doesn’t have it “yet” in a trivial sense, but no, to echo the parent comment’s point: not everyone gets an HSV infection, even over their lifetime, and the proportion that don’t is non-negligible.