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Kelly: EVERY THURSDAY WE'RE
TAKING A LOOK AT A HEALTH SHORE
OR CONCERN AFFECT MANY PEOPLING
BREAKING DOWN THE INFORMATION
AND TELLING YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO
KNOW.
DR. KALANI BRADY FROM THE JOHN
A. BURNS JOINS US NOW WITH THIS
WEEK'S TOPIC, HERPES.
YOU'RE GOING TO COVER THIS.
A LOT MORE PEOPLE HAVE IT THAN
MAY REALIZE.
ABSOLUTELY.
Kelly: SO BREAK IT DOWN.
WHAT IS HERPES.
GENITAL HERPESES IS A VERY
COMMON DISEASE ACROSS THE WORLD.
THERE ARE TWO TYPES.
TYPE ONE AND TYPE TWO.
MOST OF THE SERIOUS GENITAL
HERPESES IS TYPE TWO.
THAT PRIMARY INFECTION CAN
INCLUDE PAINFUL ULCER LESIONS,
FEVER, HEADACHE AND FEELING
POORLY.
AND IT RECURS UP TO FOUR TIMES A
YEAR IN THE BEGINNING, AND
SOMETIMES UNFORTUNATELY FOR
LIFE, SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
THEREAFTER.
Trini: THAT'S
UNFORTUNATELY.
SO THAT'S THE SIMPLEX TWO.
TELL US ABOUT ONE.
HERPES SIMPLEX ONE IS
GENERALLY A MILDER DISEASE.
IT'S CAUGHT ON THE PLAYGROUNDS
OF NURSERY SCHOOLS AND
KINDERGARTENS AND ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS WHEN CHILDREN SLOBBER
ALL OVER EVERYONE, AND IT HAS
NOTHING TO DO OBVIOUSLY WITH
ADULT ACTION.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
CHILDREN GET.
IT'S USUALLY A LESION OF THE
LIPS THAT IS COMMONLY CALLED A
COLD SORE.
AND IT'S PAINFUL BUT IT'S NOT AS
PAINFUL AT THE OTHER TYPE.
AND IT LASTS SEVEN TO TEN DAYS.
Kelly: YOU WERE SAYING
THAT'S COMMON.
HOW COMMON IS EACH SIMPLEX?
OKAY.
HERPES SIMPLEX TYPE TWO, ONE IN
SIX OUT OF AMERICANS BETWEEN THE
AGES OF 14 AND 50 HAVE HERPESES
SIMPLEX TWO.
ONE OUT OF SIX IS HIGH.
ALMOST 20%.
Kelly: AND WHAT ABOUT
SIMPLEX ONE?
SIMPLEX ONE IS -- THERE
AREN'T GOOD DATE BECAUSE IT'S
NOT REPORTABLE.
AND A LOT OF TIMES, PEOPLE DON'T
GO TO THE DOCTOR FOR THE COLD
SORE.
BUT HERPES SIMPLEX TWO IS MUCH
MORE SERIOUS.
THERE ARE ANTIBIOTICS THAT WILL
HELP WITH HERPES SIMPLE --
SIMPLEX TWO.
IT INCLUDES ACYCLAVRER.
THEY ARE SHORTEN THE COURSE OF
THE DISEASE FROM DAYS TO WEEKS.
LESS THAN A NORMAL INFECTION.
Kelly: GOOD TO KNOW.
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOME
FLICKS ONE AND TWO.
BACK TO SIMPLEX ONE.
IS IT ANY TYPE OF COLD SORE?
IF ANYONE'S HAD A COLD SORE?
NO.
SOME PEOPLE MISUSE COLD SORE AS
CANKER SORE OR VICE SER SUS.
CANKER SOARS HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH HERPES SIMPLEX.
Kelly: THERE IS TREATMENT.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY
GOOD.
VERY IMPORTANT.
HERPES SIMPLEX TYPE TWO CAN HAVE
MORE SERIOUS DISEASE THAN JUST
THE PAINFUL LESIONS.
IT CAN HAVE HERPES MENINGITIS.
A BRAIN INFECTION CALLED
ENCEPHALITIS.
HERPES LIVE DISEASE.
HERPES PNEUMONIA AND GENERALIZED
HERPES THROUGHOUT THE BODY.
Kelly: IF SOMEONE THINKS
THEY HAVE EITHER OF THESE, WHAT
DO YOU RECOMMEND?
GOING TO THE DOCTOR AND HAVE
IT DIAGNOSED.
Kelly: IT COULD LEAD TO
SOMETHING A LOT MORE SERIOUS.
AND SOME PEOPLE UNTORTLY HAVE
TO BE ON THE CYCLAVERES FOR
LIFE.
THE MESSAGE TODAY, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO BE I INTIMATE WITH
SOMEBODY, YOU DESERVE TO KNOW
THEIR HISTORY FOR THINGS LIKES
HIV BUT ALSO FOR THINGS LIAR --
LIKE HERPES.
BY AVOIDING HERPES, YOU CAN
AVOID A LIFETIME OF PAINFUL
LESIONS.
Kelly: LAST WEEK, YOU WERE
SAYING IF HIV WASN'T AS BIG AS
IT WAS, YOU WERE SAYING THAT
HERPES WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIG
STORY IN THE NEWS.
RIGHT.
IN THE '70s, HERPES WOULD HAVE
BEEN THE BIG STORY BECAUSE IT IS
SO COMMON.
IT DOES CAUSE SO MUCH DISEASE,
BUT OF COURSE, IT IS TREATABLE.
IT'S NOT CURABLE.
IT ISN'T AS SERIOUS AS HIV, BUT
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIG NEWS
AS AN OUTBREAK IN EPIDEMIC IN
AMERICA IN THE '70s.
Kelly: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
IT'S MORE COMMON THAN PEOPLE
REAL LUES.
BILLION 20% OF AMERICANS.
Kristine: NEXT WEEK'S