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And if your partner does have herpes, make sure they take their medication each day.Īnd Just Like That. You can reduce your risk of getting herpes by using latex condoms each time you have sex and making sure your partner tests negatively for the virus. According to the CDC, doctors should perform C sections on women who show symptoms of herpes at the time of delivery. This medicine can reduce the woman's risk of showing symptoms of herpes while giving birth. There is not a cure for genital herpes, but medications that can lessen the symptoms of the disease and lessen your risk of giving it to partners are available.Īside from medication, condoms also protect uninfected people from others who have the STD.Īmong people who show symptoms of the virus, signs of infection are generally presented about two to 12 days after someone is exposed to it.Īnd women with the disease have a higher risk of having a miscarriage or giving birth prematurely. But pregnant women with the disease can take anti-herpes medication towards the end of their pregnancy. When this occurs the virus is transmitted transplacentally, which leads to fetal death. The risk of the virus being transmitted when the baby is still in-utero is highest during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. And the third occurs when a newborn is exposed to herpes through skin-to-skin contact with either its mother or another person with the virus who touches it. The second occurs when the baby is born and passes through an infected vagina. This was the case with the twins born to one of the above pictured plaintiffs. The first occurs during the pregnancy, as babies can be exposed to the virus when they are still in-utero. Neonatal herpes can be passed to a baby one of three ways. The disease is spread through sexual contact, and those infected with it may not know that they have the virus at first because it can lie dormant without signs or symptoms.īut the virus can flare up repeatedly and cause pain, sores, itching and flu-like symptoms. Both result in blister-like sores on the affected areas. Herpes is a sexually transmitted disease, of which there are two types: genital and oral.
