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90% of those infected never know it because their body doesn't react to it in a fashion most associate with genital herpes.
So only 1/2 in five or 1 in ten infected know they have it. So if 20% has it, only 2% of 100 people contract symptoms associated with it.
That means for every 100 there is 1 man and 1 woman not fessing up. And there are 9 more men and 9 more women with it that don't know they even have it.
Anyone that has ever had a cold sore has herpes simplex 1 and can give that to their oral sex partners even though genital is simplex 2, simplex 1 also has been shown to infect the sex organs.
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