Herpes is a common contagious viral infection. It causes oral herpes – cold sores or fever blisters, and genital herpes – genital sores or sores usually below the waist. Herpes simplex is easily transmitted by direct contact with a lesion or the body fluid of an infected person. Herpes simp...
She called me about a week later and told me that the results of the culture came back herpetic. She then went on to explain to me the differences between type 1 and type 2 HSV, which didn't really make any sense because I was having a minor nervous breakdown. She said that it woul...
Someone I know has a water blister on the back of their shin and it is the size of a quarter. He popped it and it shrunk a bit, but it looks like it's going to leave a deep scar. I am worried because he had gotten one (smaller) on his right foot, not near the shoe... A...
, m.d., medical director of the dermatology faculty practice at the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai, tells self that herpes can also be passed on if a person isn’t wearing gloves and has herpes on their fingers, a condition known as herpetic whitlow. “it would be more likely...
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) can determine a primary infection with minor, ulcerative lymphadenopathy gingivostomatitis [50] and a recurrent infection with cold sores. Herpetic whitlow, an HSV infection of the fingers is usually caused by direct contact of the same fingers with infected saliva or ...