Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Medically reviewed by Laura Young, MD Key Takeaways A positive herpes IgG test result means you have or had a herpes infection.The herpes IgG test doesn't detect the virus itself; it detects ...

Around one in every five people aged below 50 around the world is infected with incurable genital herpes, researchers have newly estimated. According to a new paper in the journal Sexually Transmitted ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --More than 840 million people around the world under age 50 are living with genital herpes, according to a new study that calls for new vaccines to tackle the sexually transmitted ...

Infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV) is for life. Although HSV-2 is the main cause of genital herpes, HSV-1 – the virus responsible for cold sores – can be transmitted by oral sex, so it, too ...