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  2. Epidemiology of herpes simplex - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 78% of HSV-2 infections in Israel are asymptomatic. [34] HSV-1 causes 66.3% of genital herpes in the Tel Aviv area. [35] Syria— Genital herpes infection from HSV-2 is predicted to be low in Syria although HSV-1 levels are high. HSV-1 infections is common (95%) among healthy Syrians over the age of 30, while HSV-2 prevalence is ...

  3. Herpes simplex virus - Wikipedia

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    A 2018 retrospective study from Taiwan on 33,000 patients found that being infected with herpes simplex virus increased the risk of dementia 2.56 times (95% CI: 2.3-2.8) in patients not receiving anti-herpetic medications (2.6 times for HSV-1 infections and 2.0 times for HSV-2 infections). However, HSV-infected patients who were receiving anti ...

  4. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  5. Herpes simplex virus 2 - Wikipedia

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    Herpes simplex virus 2 infects humans, most often as genital herpes. In the United States more than one in six people have the virus. [4] It is primarily a sexually transmitted infection. [5] Herpes simplex virus 2 tends to reside in the sacral ganglia. Herpes simplex virus 2 is periodically shed in the human genital tract, most often ...

  6. Herpesviridae - Wikipedia

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    Nine herpesvirus types are known to primarily infect humans, [7] at least five of which are extremely widespread among most human populations, and which cause common diseases: herpes simplex 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2, also known as HHV-1 and HHV-2; both of which can cause orolabial and genital herpes), varicella zoster (VZV or HHV-3; the cause ...

  7. Herpes - Wikipedia

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    There are two types of herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2). [1] HSV-1 more commonly causes infections around the mouth while HSV-2 more commonly causes genital infections. [2] They are transmitted by direct contact with body fluids or lesions of an infected individual. [1] Transmission may still occur when symptoms are not ...

  8. Neonatal herpes - Wikipedia

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    Neonatal HSV rates in the U.S. are estimated to be between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 20,000 live births. Approximately 22% of pregnant women in the U.S. have had previous exposure to HSV-2, and an additional 2% acquire the virus during pregnancy, mirroring the HSV-2 infection rate in the general population. [27]

  9. Herpetic gingivostomatitis - Wikipedia

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    Herpetic gingivostomatitis is an infection caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). The HSV is a double-stranded DNA virus categorised into two types; HSV-1 and HSV-2.HSV-1 is predominantly responsible for oral, facial and ocular infections whereas HSV-2 is responsible for most genital and cutaneous lower herpetic lesions.