MELBOURNE: If you think a kiss is just a kiss, you could wish to think again, for the straightforward excitement now comes with a well being warning-it could cause herpes. The Australian Herpes Management Forum, which is to start out an consciousness marketing campaign, has warned that a kiss is a significant transmitter of herpes. The image of love "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 another way referred to as cold sores. It is frequently acquired as a child from contact, regularly a kiss, with adult kinfolk.
Berger said the herpes risk posed via kissing will be the main theme of a new group carrier consciousness marketing campaign. Television and radio commercials can be aired nationally from August as much as National Herpes Awareness Day, in October.
"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 another way referred to as cold sores. It is frequently acquired as a child from contact, regularly a kiss, with adult kinfolk.
Berger said the herpes risk posed via kissing will be the main theme of a new group carrier consciousness marketing campaign. Television and radio commercials can be aired nationally from August as much as National Herpes Awareness Day, in October.
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