This article does not clearly delineate the virus and method of testing done to determine the supposed “results”.
U.S. herpes rates remain high – CDC | Reuters.
Since Herpes simplex I and HSV II can each be transmitted by genital and oral contact, ( with this situation mainly a result of widespread oral-genital contact), headlining statistics about only one type of virus is rather useless.
The one in six statistic addresses only HSV II infection, and not the very common HSV I infection.
