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"48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
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WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC said.
There is no cure for genital herpes, or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), which can cause recurrent and painful genital sores and also increases the likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the AIDS virus. It is related to herpes simplex virus 1, or oral herpes, which causes cold sores.
Several drugs are available to treat herpes symptoms and outbreaks, including acyclovir, which is available generically or under the Zovirax brand name, and valacyclovir, known generically as Valtrex -- both made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK.L). Ganciclovir, sold as Zirgan, is made by privately-held Sirion Therapeutics, Inc.
The CDC estimates that more than 80 percent of people with genital herpes do not know they are infected.
"The message is herpes is quite common. The symptoms can be often very innocuous," Dr. John Douglas of the CDC said in a teleconference.
"Because herpes is so prevalent it becomes ... a really important reason to use condoms on a consistent and correct basis with all of your partners," Douglas said.
Douglas said the increased rate of infection in blacks is not do to increased risk behavior but likely due to biological factors that make women more susceptible as well as the higher rate of infection within black communities.
The CDC estimates that there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease infections every year in the United States, costing the health care system about $16 billion annually.
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10-06-2012, 09:51 PM
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
somebody warn walls
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10-06-2012, 09:53 PM
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
Who cares?
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10-06-2012, 09:58 PM
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
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10-06-2012, 10:09 PM
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
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I may have saved this whole forum from herpes with one single post. Remember me when you think about going down on a black woman's jungle.
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Interesting choice of words.
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
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Beat me too it. 
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
Glad I don't like black women.. and they don't like me.
Oh, and somebody call Brodus Clays mamma and tell her to warn her son not to sleep with one of dancer whores or he might catch it
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
That is a surprise. I thought it would be much higher.
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Re: "48 Percent of Black Women Have Genital Herpes" - CDC
That number seems way too high. Now if the article said "95% of black women have attitudes", I'd believe it.
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That is a surprise. I thought it would be much higher.
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