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How Did Herpes Cure After Years?
Magically disappearing herpes?
A friend of mine was diagnosed with herpes many years ago. She's had a few outbreaks a year. She recently became pregnant.She told her doctor about the herpes and had all those blood tests done that are typically done during pregnancy. The doctor told her that the blood test for herpes came back negative. How is this possible? She's had herpes for years and then a herpes test comes back negative! I'm very curious about this situation and hope someone might be able to explain how this is possible.
A friend of mine was diagnosed with herpes many years ago. She's had a few outbreaks a year. She recently became pregnant.She told her doctor about the herpes and had all those blood tests done that are typically done during pregnancy. The doctor told her that the blood test for herpes came back negative. How is this possible? She's had herpes for years and then a herpes test comes back negative! I'm very curious about this situation and hope someone might be able to explain how this is possible.
Mon, 1 Dec 2014
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Herpes is viral infection, in acute state of disease test for this infection shows presence of antibodies against the virus, once the disease cures then this may not be possible to detect the evidence of acute phase of disease, and the test comes negative if no clinical presence of disease there, if the test is negative then why to worry, hope this information helps, have a nice day.
Well come to HCM
Herpes is viral infection, in acute state of disease test for this infection shows presence of antibodies against the virus, once the disease cures then this may not be possible to detect the evidence of acute phase of disease, and the test comes negative if no clinical presence of disease there, if the test is negative then why to worry, hope this information helps, have a nice day.
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