Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stat-l Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Stat-L:aat 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 Article-I.D.: stat-l.272 Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:17:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:59:49 EST Organization: Purdue CC Unix Systems Group Lines: 22 >>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 -- UUCP: {decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs} !pur-ee!pucc-j:aat