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Herpes Simplex Learning Center
Prevention could include:
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Sexual abstinence
- Practice Safe Sex
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Maintain Healthy Immune System
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Elective Cesarian Delivery
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Avoid Contact With Open Lesion
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Preventing HSV infection is difficult because people can spread the virus even when they don't have any symptoms of an active outbreak.
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HSV-1 causes lesions inside the mouth that are often referred to as cold sores or fever blisters, and it is transmitted by contact with infected saliva. By adulthood, up to 90 percent of the population has antibodies to HSV-1. HSV-2 is sexually tr...
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Abstinence is the act of refraining from engaging in a positively reinforced, or pleasurable, behavior. It is typically a voluntary act, but it can also be imposed, and it typically occurs when an individual experiences a sense of decreased person...
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Safe sex means taking precautions during sex that can keep you from getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), or from giving an STD to your partner. These diseases include genital herpes, genital warts, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hep...
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