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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I've seen those ads and there has to be something exaggerated about those numbers.
If 1 in 5 people had herpes, wouldn't virtually everyone have herpes within a certain period of time?
But clearly a lot of people have herpes because I see those Valtrex ads on all the time so I assume they've done the research and know there is a pretty big audience.
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from the CDC website
Results of a nationally representative study show that genital herpes infection is common in the United States. Nationwide, at least 45 million people ages 12 and older, or one out of five adolescents and adults, have had genital HSV infection.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/STDFact-herpes.htm