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Originally Posted by knb2004  "...or an HSV-1 infection (which virtually all of us have) offers statistically meaningful protection". |
Thanks, Good Times and Slevin, for some really useful information and reasoned presentation.
I have often wondered about the question knb raises in the snip above. Can someone who has antibodies for HSV1 contract HSV2? (Not that there is a huge difference in that either can present orally or genitally, but since most people already have been exposed to HSV1 and don't even know it, it would make the lower incidence of HSV2 easier to understand if it conferred some form of immunity.)