Essay - Genital Herpes Introduction Genital Herpes is Another Type of Sexually...

Genital Herpes

Introduction

***** herpes is another type of sexually transmitted d*****ease. This disease is caused by the herpes simplex viruses (HSV) ***** 1 and type 2, however, most of the genital herpes recorded today are caused by ***** ***** 2 (Division of STD Prevention, May 2005).

***** herpes can affect both men and women population ***** is highly contagious. A person with genital herpes ***** be found suffering from pain and sores, particularly in the genital *****a. Medical professionals have d*****closed that the virus that is causing such disease can enter one's body through small breaks in the sk***** or in the mucous membranes. Although research based *****formation disclosed that genital herpes can only be transferred through sexual interaction (*****cause the virus dies quickly when outside ***** body, hence it is almost impossible to be infected with such virus by using the objects used by an infected *****) (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/genital-herpes/DS00179/DSECTION=8,2006), physicians, nurses ***** the aspiring ones should still study th***** disease closely so as to know and inform *****e public about the pertinent information connected to this dise*****e.

Genital Herpes

Epidemiology

There is as*****unding statistical information regarding the transmission of the disease. First, ***** on studies, there is actually one in every five ***** the adolescent and adult ***** who is ***** with genital herpes, and majority of these are women (one in ***** four women; while in men is ***** out ***** five). It ***** also good to note that based on records, genital herpes is more commonly transmitted via male to fe***** sexual contract than *****male to male (American Social Health Association, 1998).

In America alone, there is a ***** one ***** every ***** Americans ***** have genital ***** ***** 80% of whom do not know that they have acquired such *****. From th***** population, 25% of which ***** adults and about one in every five Americans over age 12 (***** is roughly 45 million **********) are infected with HSV-2. This statistics enabled the researchers to safely predict that an estimated 1 million new ***** infections may ***** ***** each year in ***** United States (Fleming et al. *****997).

Me*****while, in other parts of the globe, genit***** herpes is also becoming a problem. In Austr*****lia, a record of one in every six Australian adults has genital herpes. The Australian ***** Management Forum (AHMF) revealed that from the said number ***** Australian people with genital herpes, only one of 5 from them are diagnosed and estimated 80% ***** cases of ***** herpes ***** not recognized as such ***** clinicians.

A ***** number of African-Americans ***** the White Caucasians have also had genital herpes. Records show that 45.9% of the total African-American populations ***** had genital ***** while 17.6% of ***** White Caucasian had the same sexually transmitted disease (Institute of Medicine. 1997).

***** the number of cases related to ***** herpes, it is just expected that the medical expenses related ***** ***** d*****ease is equally high. In 1994 alone, approximately $237 million was spent to medicines, hospital bills and