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What are the most common symptoms of genital herpes?
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Discomfort: Painful ulcers in the genital area. Herpes virus lives in the nerves of the body and will cause recurrent ulcers in the same area repeatedly.
Answered 10/3/2016
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No symptoms: Most w/ herpes have no symptoms. Yet 80% of those 18-50 years old will have blood tests positive for herpes. When women with mild symptoms of occasional symptoms of vaginal irritation are tested, many times herpes is the reason.
Answered 4/4/2016
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