Also, not covid related, but I saw this the other day. It makes me wonder if a whole bunch of women have been diagnosed with herpes when they actually don’t have herpes. I had a friend tell me about how she was diagnosed with herpes in a college health center even though they didn’t swab her or take blood. For years she would disclose to everyone she was dating and then once she left college and got health insurance and saw a real doctor about it they found that she didn’t have herpes. Halle Berry was diagnosed with herpes until they did tests and realized it was dry vagina from perimenopause.
How many women are walking around thinking they actually have genital herpes just because of their EBV infection? You would think that they would get follow up blood work, but it wasn’t until about 2009 that I realized if you go to an STD clinic and say “test me for everything!” they don’t test you for herpes. If you’re not looking at those results you wouldn’t know. You would think you’ve been tested for everything.
https://www.acibademhealthpoint.com/epstein-barr-virus-genital-ulcers-link-explained/


