If you're black, you have a 40 percent chance of having genital herpes.Still, the fact that such a large percentage of African Americans have genital herpes -- compared with 17 percent of the American adult population as a whole and 12 percent for Mexican Americans -- is remarkable. While herpes is not life-threatening, it is contagious. And it is incurable.
Herpes hides, and many of the people who have it cloak their condition, out of shame or pride. There is no cure for herpes, but there is a cure for denial. It's called the truth. New infection rates, especially among young people, are dropping. With more testing and more awareness, they should drop even more...read more
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