Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unisoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!fnf From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.kids Subject: Re: 3 year old herpes patients Message-ID: <391@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 03:39:08 EST Article-I.D.: unisoft.391 Posted: Thu Jan 17 03:39:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 07:49:11 EST References: <740@loral.UUCP> <2448@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <1261@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: UniSoft Corp., Berkeley Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.singles:5500 net.kids:886 > 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