(Lefty @ Oct. 01 2009,05:17) I think your figures may even slightly on the low side. There are many forms of herpes. Shingles, aka Herpes Zoster, breaks out in a wide cross section of the population and it seems as though one is born with it laying dormant in their system until some extreme stress may cause it to erupt. It is not transmitted from one person to another sexually that is for sure and coming in contact with another person's shingles, which usually appear on the back and around one side to the front of the ri area, won't cause you to get shingles as I recall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_zoster
They're all part of the Herpes family... including Chickenpox.
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