The difference between the herpes virus and herpangina?
heroinebaby asked:
What is the difference between the herpes virus and herpangina? Can herpangina turn into genital herpes? If you kiss someone without having a herpangina outbreak can your partner still get herpangina? If someone could please answer this for me it would be very helpful. Thank you.
What is the difference between the herpes virus and herpangina? Can herpangina turn into genital herpes? If you kiss someone without having a herpangina outbreak can your partner still get herpangina? If someone could please answer this for me it would be very helpful. Thank you.
Tags: Herpangina, Herpes, Herpes Virus, Outbreak, Partner
July 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Herpangina is the name of a painful mouth infection, usually with a fever. Even though the name sounds like herpes, almost all of the many viruses that cause it are coxsackieviruses or other enteroviruses—not herpesvirus.
Who gets it?
Herpangina is most common among young children but can occur at any age. Once people have had a specific strain of coxsackievirus, they are generally immune, but they could become sick with one of the other strains. Most infections occur in the summer or early fall, with a peak from August to October in the northern hemisphere.
Since this is NOT from the herpes virus there would be NO way for this to become genital herpes. Coxsackieviruses and other enteroviruses are present both in the stool and in the respiratory secretions. They can spread by fecal–oral transmission, droplet transmission, contact transmission, and by means of fomites. school or daycare for the first several days of the illness, but it is not clear this prevents others from becoming infected. Other children in the class are probably contagious even though they will never develop symptoms.