What are the chances of passing on oral Herpes?
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Lets say person number one has oral Herpes, and person number two doesnt.. What are the chances of passing oral herpes to person number twos genitals if there is no outbreak.
Lets say person number one has oral Herpes, and person number two doesnt.. What are the chances of passing oral herpes to person number twos genitals if there is no outbreak.
What about passing it to person number two orally?
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February 8th, 2010 at 12:54 am
PositiveSingles
Your chances are greater during an out break. About 85%.When the virus is dormant it’s down to about 20%.
This applies for both oral and genital.
February 10th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Herpeset:Genital Herpes Relief
It is actually very easy unfortunately.
Both my sister and I have genital hsv-1. the virus normally responsible for oral herpes. So we were both the uninfected partner, with boyfriends who got cold sores. My sister caught herpes on her gentials three months into her relationship, through oral sex. He did not have a cold sore at the time. I caught it after seven years with my oral herpes infected partner. He was extremely worried about giving it to me, so he avoided contact when he has even a slight tingle. And in all the time we were together he probably only gave me oral sex six or seven times, before I caught it. He had no symptoms when he did give it me. He also kissed me that night but I only caught it genitally. Women’s genitals are particularly vulnerable to catching herpes, more so than the mouth. Given a choice I would prefer to have caught it orally. My friend at college caught it from a one night stand with a boy who only gave her oral sex, he didn’t have anything visible on his mouth and didn’t want to know when she told him.
So it is very easy to catch genital hepres through oral sex even if there is no outbreak. Oral hsv-1 is actually infectious slightly more of the time than hsv-2 genitally. If is infectious for a chunk of the time when there are no symptoms, maybe 6-10%, I’m not sure of the exact statistic, but the point is it doesn’t matter if it was 1% because you don’t know when that one day in a hundred owuld be so you can’t avoid it. There is always a risk present.