It has two types, HSV-1 and HSV-2. Both can cause an outbreak of genital sores, but HSV-2 is considered genital herpes. Women have a higher rate of contracting genital herpes than men for a few ...

Pregnant women who have a history of genital herpes or recent primary infection should deliver by cesarean section in the presence of genital lesions at labor or primary HSV infection at any time ...

(See box, "Signs of Genital Herpes in Women.") Figure 4. Genital ulceration and vulvar erythema are signs of genital herpes. Herpetic lesions evolve from a group of pustular or vesicular papules ...

These new studies suggest that a comprehensive campaign to vaccinate girls and women not infected with either type of herpes simplex virus could significantly reduce the spread of the herpes ...

Alaina Luxmoore is a trustee on the New Zealand Herpes Foundation (NZHF) board, an organisation aiming to make information ...

What are signs of genital herpes in women? The only way to know for sure if you have genital herpes is to get checked out by a doctor or nurse. The most common genital herpes symptoms in women is a ...

A lot of people said they'd been diagnosed with herpes at a young age and forgotten about it because they'd never had a flare ...

Samantha Mulcahy (left) and Kimberley Sampson died weeks apart after being operated on by the same surgeon The relatives of two women who died with herpes after giving birth are bringing clinical ...

therefore, to reduce the risk of HSV-2 and HIV sexual transmission by prophylactic counseling against unprotected intercourse. It may also be a useful adjunct in detecting cases who present with ...

Of the 16 virologically confirmed cases, 12 were female, 11 were <5years of age, 14 had herpes simplex type 1, eight were tested for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and only one had a ...

The relatives of two women who died with herpes after giving birth are bringing clinical negligence claims against an NHS trust at the High Court. Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy ...