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Can you give me a percentage of people that develop genital herpes symptoms and people that don't develop symptoms when they are first infected?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Already Answered: 90% of patients who are positive for genital herpes do not get sores or outbreaks. This is new information. Almost everything we learned about herpes before five years ago was wrong.

Dr Munshower agreed

Answered 7/12/2018

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