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Everyone gets it. It just goes away, often for years. There's no cure. Like colds.
> There's no cure. Like colds. Colds resolve in a few days to a week. There is absolutely a cure, just not one in pill form.
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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've had it on both sides of my lips which probably means that i have both - HSV1 and HSV2. That also means that i never going to get it anywhere else on my body (once any one site in the body gets infected with herpes the rest of the body develops immunity 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 trans…
HSV takes up latency in usually either the dorsal root ganglion (which typically presents with lesions in the genital region), or in the trigeminal ganglion which typically presents with oral lesions.
You are right that infection with one strain does not necessarily grant immunity to infection with another strain.
It is also not true that oral lesions necessarily indicate HSV1 infection, and that genital lesions necessarily indicate HSV2 infection.
Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
The article doesn't mention, among possible stressors, that spacecraft are always operated at reduced air pressure and high oxygen fraction, and low humidity. The problem is, nobody knows which factors are actually responsible for downregulating immune system activity, because every astronaut gets all of them. A few ought to be variable. Sleep deprivation ought to be entirely avoidable, but NASA cannot quite manage n…
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> There's no cure. Like colds. Colds resolve in a few days to a week. There is absolutely a cure, just not one in pill form.
Most HSV outbreaks also resolve in a few days to a week, and either never recur at all or recur extremely infrequently.
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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.
Sounds like one of those "the cure is worse than the disease" situations.
The article doesn't mention, among possible stressors, that spacecraft are always operated at reduced air pressure and high oxygen fraction, and low humidity. The problem is, nobody knows which factors are actually responsible for downregulating immune system activity, because every astronaut gets all of them. A few ought to be variable. Sleep deprivation ought to be entirely avoidable, but NASA cannot quite manage n…
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I was thinking "space herpes," but couldn't remember what movie it was from.
Ice Pirates.
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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…
>That also means that i never going to get it anywhere else on my body (once any one site in the body gets infected with herpes the rest of the body develops immunity) Do you have a source for that? I have somewhat suspected that was the case based on some other things I've heard, but I have been unable to find any real sources on it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
"But as people gained awareness of the contagious nature of cold sores, they became more cautious about exposing young children to a skin outbreak. That means more and more of us get to adulthood without any HSV immunity.
On the one hand, that makes the younger generation more susceptible to HSV-2 -- one won't 100 percent protect you from contracting the other, but they have some antibodies in common. On the other hand, it means that more and more people get their first exposure to HSV-1 not through kissing, but through oral sex."