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Why don't doctors test for genital herpes unless there are symptoms?
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Men will have: some type of external lesion, or group of lesions that need to undergo direct viral culture which is the gold standard. If nothing is visible then one can only presume that you may have had herpes sometime given the suggestive history.
Answered 6/18/2014
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