Archive for April, 2010:
How Do You Get Genital Herpes?
Genital Herpes is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Being interested in or affected by genital herpes you may ask yourself “How do you get genital herpes?”
One of the most common ways to get genital herpes is by having sex or direct skin contact with someone who has got cold sores and blisters. That means that the genital herpes virus is active. However, sometimes the infected person doesn’t have to have visible symptoms of genital herpes, like blisters or cold sores. That’s why the only effective way to prevent genital herpes is by not having sex. Other way to avoid infection is to use condoms but there is no guarantee that it will cover the infected skin so the protection is not 100% guaranteed.
The virus is not spread by air and is usually not spread by touching objects like toilet seat or hot tub, but there are some cases where you don’t have to have sexual contact in order to become infected. In some rare cases adults and children can be infected if they use infected towel, or babies can get it during delivery.
