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In healthy adults, HSV-2 infection occurs more frequently in the United States than in Europe. Seroprevalence rates in the United States appeared to be increasing, rising from 16.4% in 1976 to 21.8% in 1994. [12] However, this trend seems to have reversed itself in recent years, dropping to 17.2% in 2004. [13]
In 2015, about 846 million people (12% of the world population) had genital herpes. [4] In the United States, more than one in six people between the ages of 14 and 49 have the disease. [8] Women are more commonly infected than men. [1] Rates of disease caused by HSV-2 have decreased in the United States between 1990 and 2010. [1]
As of 2016, about 67% of the world population under the age of 50 had HSV-1. [3] In the United States, about 47.8% and 11.9% are estimated to have HSV-1 and HSV-2, respectively, though actual prevalence may be much higher. [4] Because it can be transmitted through any intimate contact, it is one of the most common sexually transmitted ...
About half a billion people ages 15 to 49 have genital herpes infections, which are mostly caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, which can raise the risk of HIV. Herpes infections can lead to ...
Herpes labialis is common throughout the world. A large survey of young adults on six continents reported that 33% of males and 28% of females had herpes labialis on two or more occasions during the year before the study. The lifetime prevalence in the United States of America is estimated at 20–45% of the adult population. Lifetime ...
Halle Berry says her doctor was convinced she had the 'worst case of herpes' he had ever seen when she described symptoms related to perimenopause. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
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The constant K is assigned a value of 100 to represent a percentage. An example would be to find the percentage of people in a city who are infected with HIV: 6,000 cases in March divided by the population of a city (one million) multiplied by the constant (K) would give an infection rate of 0.6%. [citation needed]