It can be transmitted through direct contact with contaminated items, like towels, panties,and toilet seats. It can also be transmitted through kissing and in rare cases through oral sexual contact.



It can be transmitted like that because these particular types of viruses can survive outside their natural environments, even for whole minutes, so be careful what is it that you touch, try on, or when you use public restrooms!

A large number of the infected individuals do not show any indications of the infection at all, which makes it doubly dangerous. The person unknowingly becomes a living and breathing carrier of the disease, infecting everyone that he comes in contact with. This is how a large number of people get the disease year after year. It is either the person ignores the symptoms or none appear at all.

Incubation period of the virus is between three to seven days after the exposure. Usually, the first infection is violent, severe and it has extended evolution, or it can present no symptoms at all, depending on the reactivity of the patient and the individual immune response.

Manifestations of genital herpes appear in the genital area, which start with small red bumps that progress into watery blisters, then develop further into open sores. When scratched, the sores could burst open and secrete blood and pus. Before all these, the person will first feel a burning and itching sensation.

Two to four days after, the watery blisters will burst and develop into open raw wounds, which can become bigger and the boil covered with crusts can take up large areas of the skin.

As we mentioned, this infection affects both women and men, no matter what type of sexual activity they develop. People who practice anal sex can get lesions at the anus level. Women however can experience a great amount of pain if the virus is located at the urethra level. Stinging and burning feelings will definitely bother the infected woman, and this condition shall need immediate treatment.

Some of the symptoms of the infection are headache, colds and fever. The lesions can develop up to the hip, buttocks and upper thigh. The infection can be treated with anti-viral medicines which will arrest the development of the virus and the severity of the infection.

Unfortunately, until present days, the specialists could not develop a treatment to prevent the latency state of the virus. Also there is no such remedy for permanent removal of the virus from the human organism. The virus can only be controlled.

Continuous treatments have rendered successful results in preventing the frequency of outbreaks of the genital herpes, as well as in reducing the severity of the infection. The anti-viral treatment must be continued up to fourteen days, and if the wounds are still not healed, the medication can be extended for seven more days.

It is incumbent on the infected person not to disregard the symptoms by immediately seeing a doctor. Then he has to do all that is necessary to stop spreading the infection to others.