Herpes - genital; Herpes simplex - genital; Herpesvirus 2; HSV-2
Many people with HSV-2 infection never have sores, or they have
very mild symptoms that they do not even notice or mistake for
insect bites or another skin condition. If signs and symptoms do
occur during the first outbreak, they can be quite severe. This
first outbreak usually happens within 2 weeks of being infected.
Generalized or whole-body ( About once or twice a month, I see a
young male in his late teens or early 20s who come to me to
evaluate a bump or lesion on his penis.... Read more » There may
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from one symptom of sexually transmitted disease. Merck, the...
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