Everyone needs to know the facts about herpes type 2 if they intend to keep themselves free of this widespread sexually transmitted disease.  Pretty much everyone is aware that there is a sexually transmitted disease called herpes, but then they get bombarded with information about different kinds of herpes like type 1, type 2, cold sores (fever blisters), etc.  With all this information overload it can be difficult to sort out the really important facts about herpes type 2, which is the main cause of genital herpes.
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What is herpes type 1?  What does it do?  Does it cause genital herpes?  What’s the difference between it and the other types of herpes?  These are some of the most common questions people have about herpes type 1, and if you’re one of them, you’re not alone.  There is a lot of confusion abroad when it comes to the topic of herpes, and most people couldn’t tell you the difference between type 1 herpes and type 2, or which one generally causes cold sores and which one usually is responsible for genital herpes.  But we’ll answer all those questions in this article, and you’ll get the answers you need.
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Oral herpes, commonly known as herpes in the mouth, is a caused by the herpes simplex virus, which million and million of people carry in their bodies, even if they don’t know it.  If you’ve ever had a cold sore, or had a friend or family member who suffered from cold sores, that was one form that herpes in the mouth can take.  Technically, visible cold sores aren’t actually inside the mouth in most cases, but somewhere just outside, like above the lip.  But it’s still considered to be oral herpes.  Not only are cold sores unattractive, they can also be quite painful.  And people who get them tend to get them over and over again.
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Not a lot of people are aware of it, but eye herpes (also known as ocular herpes) is a common health condition that anyone can contract.  The vast majority of people have never heard of this malady, but it’s actually pretty common.  Most people, of course, have heard the word herpes before and they tend to think of it as a sexually transmitted disease that affects genital areas.  But that’s only one form of the many different herpes viruses that are out there that people need to know about.  Cold sores around the mouth are another ailment that can be caused by the various kinds of herpes, and ocular herpes is another one.
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Female genital herpes is a growing health problem for women in the United States and other parts of the world.  It was only a few short decades ago that most people had never heard of herpes, and didn’t have any idea what it was.  It was only in the late 1970s that word about this increasingly common STD began to get out, and it was well into the 1980s before the average person in America became familiar with the new term.  Since then the virus has multiplied exponentially and we’ve now reached a point where one in five Americans 13 years of age and older has the infection.
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