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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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Subject: Re: 3 year old herpes patients
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> Steve Dyer writes:
>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.

Actually, I have heard the statistic quoted that more than 80% of the
entire population either has the herpes simplex 1 virus (cold sore type),
or has been exposed to it at one time or another, with the vast majority
never having any outbreaks after the initial exposure.  Any medical
experts out there that can comment on this? 

-- Fred