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Re: can anyone explain this to me please?

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:44:33 -0600 (CST)

At Sun, 31 Mar 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I have been told that if a person with an active cold sore around his mouth
>performs oral sex on a woman, the HSV1 virus will be transmitted to the
>woman, and become genital herpes (HSV2). Is this true? It makes sense that
>the virus would be transmitted this way, but not that the virus would
>actually mutate in the transmission from one host to another. Can someone
>explain? Thank you!

Should be in the archives 

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Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG
Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC
Sugar Land, TX


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