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That seems like it would be an extremely expensive experiment.
Make it a rich person, call it space tourism and you could make it profitable.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Spaceflight
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"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
widespread cold sores in a given society i think have 2 pronged effect: 1. a something widespread does usually have naturally higher societal acceptance 2. [IANAD] kind of "de-facto" vaccination/immunization. For example i (like many many Russians) have occasional cold sores (once in a 1-4 years, in CA seems to be less frequently than back in Russia) since childhood. I've had it on both sides of my lips which probabl…
This is definitely not true. HSV2 showing up on lips is extremely uncommon. I've had HSV1 for my entire life and any area of my mouth is fair game, as so is the inside of my nose.
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I would humbly suggest submarine crews as control group. Canned air, tight space, weird sleep cycles, noise and artificial light. Submarine crews are even more isolated because they can't contact families while underway.
I'd imagine this whole "being strapped to a ton of explosives and using them to fly" moment is a tad bit more extreme and stressful than a submarine dive. After that, they both have similar constant stress factors, but imho the launch alone is probably way more than what anybody on a submarine would go through.
NASA could send a control group of astronauts to space with NO duties and see if it has any effect on health (relative to those with “jobs”). Space travel is surely stressful, but perhaps the additional pressure of having tight schedules and deliverables is an additional stress?
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"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
widespread cold sores in a given society i think have 2 pronged effect: 1. a something widespread does usually have naturally higher societal acceptance 2. [IANAD] kind of "de-facto" vaccination/immunization. For example i (like many many Russians) have occasional cold sores (once in a 1-4 years, in CA seems to be less frequently than back in Russia) since childhood. I've had it on both sides of my lips which probabl…
This is all contrary to my understanding.
You can definitely spread either strain to other areas of your body. You can spread it around your mouth more and transfer it from your mouth to your genitals.
Thinking you can't get it more will not lead to pleasant outcomes.
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The estimates I've seen were more 1/3 to 1/2 of people being infected but it is very common because most people engage in unprotected kissing with a number of partners. I have, in fact, never heard of anyone using a barrier while kissing so I don't think you can expect that someone with HSV-1 to also have other diseases.
My sex ed class taught me to use a dental dam for protection while kissing. I guess some people got abstinence-only classes, but most of us were taught how to stay safe. I've also known multiple people in the USA who actually succeeded with abstinence. They did not kiss or spend time alone with the opposite sex until their wedding day. IMHO the abstinence looks easier, but the use of protection is being taught.
Interesting to me personally because I'd never heard before that HSV-1 reactivation was stress-linked.
If you ever had chicken pox, high stress can re-activate the dormant virus, and it reactivates as "shingles". There is a vaccine that came out a few years ago to suppress it from happening.
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No, almost 40% of us do not get it. This is not something inevitable. I don't have any family member with the symptoms.
You realize most people don't get any symptoms, right? Many people contract it as a kid (a kiss from a relative) and their immune system suppresses it. Unless you get an HSV blood test you will not know.
[0]: https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/igm-blood-test-...
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widespread cold sores in a given society i think have 2 pronged effect: 1. a something widespread does usually have naturally higher societal acceptance 2. [IANAD] kind of "de-facto" vaccination/immunization. For example i (like many many Russians) have occasional cold sores (once in a 1-4 years, in CA seems to be less frequently than back in Russia) since childhood. I've had it on both sides of my lips which probabl…
I find this fascinating. Never heard the claim before that lip herpes grants immunity to genital outbreaks. Also, whats source of such common early childhood herpes in Russia? Kissing from infected relatives? Given lethality of neonatal herpes it seems unlikely to be interuterine transmission.
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Although it's not curable, there are a lot of good, cheap treatments available, and many people can go long periods of time with no symptoms. Consider the line from the Wikipedia page: "Worldwide rates of either HSV-1 or HSV-2 are between 60% and 95% in adults." If infection rates are that high, it's probably not that big of a deal for most people.
It's also associated with Alzheimer's disease, which is a horrible way to die. It can cause blindness and death, particularly in newborns. I don't think it wise to dismiss herpes as just something mild or inevitable.