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From: aat@stat-l (Jeff Smith)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: 3 year old herpes patients
Message-ID: <272@stat-l>
Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 11:17:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:17:16 1985
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>>In my day, kids had "cold sores", and they weren't particularly
>>ostracised by the schools.  It was incurable then, too.  It's
>>a damn shame that our collective guilt at this newest sexually-transmitted
>>disease can cause such hysteria directed at this child.
>>-- 
>>/Steve Dyer
>>{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer
>>sdyer@bbncca.ARPA
>>

	I saw the same news clip and had the same reaction.  Does anyone
know if having herpes causes any symptoms other than having sores?  If
it doesn't, it's merely inconvenient.  Doesn't seem like a good reason
to ruin a child's life (yeah, I know it might not "ruin his life", but it
sure won't make it any easier.)

				Jeff Smith

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