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‘Kissing Can Cause Herpes’
MELBOURNE: If you think a kiss is just a kiss, you might want to think again, for the simple pleasure now comes with a health warning-it can cause herpes. The Australian Herpes Management Forum, which is to start an awareness campaign, has warned that a kiss is a major transmitter of herpes. The symbol of affection “poses risks to both adults and children”.
“No parent kissing their child or partner kissing their girlfriend wants to pass along the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), but people should be aware this is the main method of transmission. Once you have been infected with HSV-1 or HSV-2, the virus stays in your body for life and can reactivate at any time,” the Australian media quoted AHMF’s Executive Director Tricia Berger.
“If you have a herpes sore on or near your mouth, it is likely that you’ll pass the virus along to whomever you kiss. It is also possible to transmit the virus even when there are no apparent sores or symptoms, but the risk is higher when the sores are visible,” Berger said.
HSV-1 is the variant of the virus otherwise referred to as cold sores. It is commonly acquired as a child from contact, often a kiss, with adult relatives.
Berger said the herpes risk posed by kissing would be the main theme of a new community service awareness campaign. Television and radio ads will be aired nationally from August up to National Herpes Awareness Day, in October.
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Gaddafi
September 29, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Kissing we can stop even today… Not ija … Twenu ..
Kasenge Richard
September 29, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Tulemwenako,cilikuli solola byeee!
kelido
September 29, 2013 at 3:40 pm
axiom
kelido
September 29, 2013 at 3:43 pm
kissing?
shockd
September 29, 2013 at 7:45 pm
wats next lip condoms?..kaili kuza funika protection..haha..2 bad 4 thoz wu hv neva kissd b4.
babies stricken with herpes
September 29, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Two more babies stricken with herpes after ritual ultra-orthodox Jewish oral blood sucking circumcision in New York City
he latest cases bring the count to 13 infants since 2000, two of which suffered brain damage and two died from the virus which can rapidly spread throughout its body.
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish practice of metzitzah b’peh requires a practitioner to orally suck the baby’s penis to ‘cleanse’ the open wound following its circumcision, making them susceptible to the virus.
thats religion for ya
September 29, 2013 at 11:08 pm
Herpes Strikes Two More Infants After Ritual Circumcision
This just sounds like legal child molestation. There is no need for these grown men to put their mouths on a little boys private parts. They are no different than the catholic priests who molest little boys.
WOW
September 29, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Circumcision is the act of mutilating a body part. Infants are too young to consent to it. Therefore, this practice is forcible mutilation.
I did’nt know that jewish rabbi’s suck on babies privates after circumsicion.
Was jesus not a Jew? Blimey!!!
holier than thou
September 29, 2013 at 11:26 pm
The Rabbi places his mouth around the baby penis to suck the blood to “cleanse” the wound. This is a pervertic art
kolwezi
September 29, 2013 at 11:58 pm
rabbi accused of infecting babies with herpes
September 30, 2013 at 12:00 am
Truthful
September 30, 2013 at 10:09 am
iyee! that act should be stopped bane!
iLLUmInAtI
September 30, 2013 at 10:30 am
bullshiting true lies
Kennedy
October 1, 2013 at 3:59 pm
One of the symptomes of HSV is the soles around the lips refered to us soles after a headache.
Dry and sole throat few hours after a fling are signs of this type of Viruses including the HIV.
Kennedy
October 1, 2013 at 4:01 pm
If one had a fling without protection and notices these things, you can quaratine the viruses by getting a prescription of ARVs.
FYI
October 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm
“If one had a fling without protection and notices these things, you can quaratine the viruses by getting a prescription of ARVs”…where in Zambia can you go and present such a case and be given ARVs? As it is, there is not even enough drugs for people who actually need these life savings drugs!
BC
October 2, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Kissing DOES NOT CAUSE Herpes Simplex but IS one of the modes of transmission. It is also transmitted sexually.
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