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From: cool on 4 May 2006 16:21
After contracting either Herpes 1 or 2 it takes 12-16 weeks (3-4
months) to develop antibodies which will help protect you from further
infection. Until you develop antibodies you may spread the infection.
Would it be possible to purposefully infect a very small patch of skin,
for instance, on the back of your arm above your elbow perhaps, so that
you would devlop antibodies, have very minor symptoms, and after 12-16
weeks be protected from ever contracting the disease elsewhere?

From: Banty on 4 May 2006 16:50
In article <1146774084.029864.267020(a)i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
cool(a)pattayacitythailand.zzn.com says...
>
>After contracting either Herpes 1 or 2 it takes 12-16 weeks (3-4
>months) to develop antibodies which will help protect you from further
>infection. Until you develop antibodies you may spread the infection.
>Would it be possible to purposefully infect a very small patch of skin,
>for instance, on the back of your arm above your elbow perhaps, so that
>you would devlop antibodies, have very minor symptoms, and after 12-16
>weeks be protected from ever contracting the disease elsewhere?
>

You may spread the infection even if you do have antibodies. Certainly during a
symptomatic non-primary outbreak, or even if you're asymptomatic (or having a
sub-symptomatic outbreak). Not only during the primary infection.

And once infected, you're infected, as is try for all the Herpes family viruses.

So there's no reason to do this.

No magic solution to this one.

Banty


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From: Sue on 5 May 2006 09:43
<cool(a)pattayacitythailand.zzn.com> wrote in message
> I guess you can neither read nor understand simple concepts. When you
> first get the virus and have an outbreak you are capable of infecting
> yourself in other places, and spreading the infection. After you gain
> antibodies this is no longer as possible.

That is so not true. You need to do some research because once you have
Herpes, you always have it and you can have a break out at any time. It
lives in the ganglia in the spine. You can even infect another person
without an active outbreak.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)


From: -L. on 5 May 2006 12:21

cool(a)pattayacitythailand.zzn.com wrote:
> After contracting either Herpes 1 or 2 it takes 12-16 weeks (3-4
> months) to develop antibodies which will help protect you from further
> infection. Until you develop antibodies you may spread the infection.
> Would it be possible to purposefully infect a very small patch of skin,
> for instance, on the back of your arm above your elbow perhaps, so that
> you would devlop antibodies, have very minor symptoms, and after 12-16
> weeks be protected from ever contracting the disease elsewhere?

No. Once infected, the virus becomes systemic.

-L.

From: shinypenny on 5 May 2006 14:23

cool(a)pattayacitythailand.zzn.com wrote:
> After contracting either Herpes 1 or 2 it takes 12-16 weeks (3-4
> months) to develop antibodies which will help protect you from further
> infection. Until you develop antibodies you may spread the infection.
> Would it be possible to purposefully infect a very small patch of skin,
> for instance, on the back of your arm above your elbow perhaps,

I think it would be very difficult to infect yourself on the back of
your arm above your elbow. HSV likes warm moist places like your mouth
and genitals.


> so that
> you would devlop antibodies, have very minor symptoms, and after 12-16
> weeks be protected from ever contracting the disease elsewhere?

If you're worried about this, go out and get a blood test. Chances are
pretty good you're *already* infected with HSV-1, and maybe also even
HSV-2. Lots of people are asymptomatic.

jen

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