If this is verified then what the hell are we locked down for?

[syed putra]

Last thing: even if your HSV test came back positive, you don't know when you caught it anyway! Maybe your parents had cold sores and passed HSV 1 to you as a child. So now you test positive for HSV 1 and going to freak out when you have been living with it happily all your life? Maybe you caught HSV 2 from your 1st GF, been symptom free all this while and now you are going to freak out?

After knowing all this you still want to test?
Listen to good advice from everyone here. You have no symptoms. Leave it.
Live your life. Be happy.

If you had symptoms, but it's dormant for decades, you can still pass it to your girl friend no?

 

[bushtucker]

Can we extract the antibodies from these 30% and make some drug or vaccine? The first pharma company to do that will make lots of dough.

 

[Leongsam]

If you had symptoms, but it's dormant for decades, you can still pass it to your girl friend no?

According to research there is periodic shedding of the virus even if there are no symptoms.

It is definitely transmittable but even if you do pass the virus to a sex partner chances are she will no display any symptoms either because the majority of those infected are asymptomatic.

There is also a likelihood that she already has the virus.