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I'm just wondering, if you have herpes will you always have elevated white blood cells level?

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Dr. Michael Dugan answered

Specializes in Hematology

Not necessarily : And likely not. Viral infections due not always correlate with wbc.

Dr Nguyen and another doctor agreed

Answered 2/15/2014

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