½ Billion People Have STDs from Oral Sex

The data provided by the WHO

Around 3B people have herpes nowadays. This data came from the WHO. This is around 2/3 of the people below 50 years of age have herpes. More than ½B have sexually transmitted herpes, the genital herpes simplex virus type 1 or HSV-1 or herpes simplex virus type 2 of HSV-2 STD. In the HSV-1, it commonly spreads with an oral contact and the signs may be cold sores, however it may spread to the genitals through an oral sex. Kids who live in an unclean place may also get this type of herpes. Good thing better hygiene is now being promoted in various nations, fewer records are recorded with the HSV-1, however more people in some rich nations are now suffering from the HSV-1 condition by means of oral sex. Globally, some of the 140M people ages 15-49 are infected with this condition as well.

The HSV-2 on the other hand is spreadable through a skin to skin contact. Around 417M people below the age of 50 have HSV-2. When the infections of the genital HSV-1 as well as HSV-2 STD are mixed, there will be more than 587M people who that will infected by herpes. This is just the number infected with herpes STD. That does not include the millions of people who got another type of STD. This is what you call pandemic.  There are lots of reasons why genital HSV-1 along with HSV-2 are so contagious. Both of them are easy to spread just by merely having an unprotected sex with someone who thinks he/she is STD proof. The signs may include fever blisters or cold sores on the face, anus and genitals. The good thing is that both of the herpes variety can easily be treated using antibiotics.

Awareness is needed to ward off herpes

Education is very crucial with STD testing and prevention against herpes. Young individuals should be taught about STD that includes the fact that they can spread by means of oral sex even before they become sexually active. This is according to Dr. Temmerman; he is the director of the WHO. The new herpes cases have been estimated and the need for a better data collection on HSV kinds as well as sexually transmitted diseases as a whole was highlighted. This calls for strong STD testing calls to control the spread.  The WHO researchers have gathered some data for 6 parts of the globe and they used the 2012 populace data to gather the prominence of the HSV-1. From the roughly estimated rate of infection across the globe, the WHO have estimated that there are more than 3B people from birth to age 49, which is about 2.3 of the populace in that age bracket are infected with herpes. Most of the populace in the data is kids; however, they will grow to be sexually active. They will also spread the infection through a genital contact or it may also be through oral sex.

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