I once took an STD test series for all the typical STDs and everything came back negative….except for HSV-1 (cold sores aka oral herpies). It returned an ‘abnormal’ result of 1.05….not at the level of true positive (1.09 or higher) but not at ‘normal’ of 0.9 or lower. Of course I freaked, had a few days of intense anxiety and suicidal thoughts, then decided to get a second test. This second one came back full normal. WTF? Please explain how this works.
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Most people have HSV-1, in my country the number is over 70%. Some people will only test positive if they have an active infection. Many people will have HSV-1 and never actually find out. It’s just a bit of genetic luck as to whether you will present symptoms or not.
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