{"id":201461,"date":"2024-12-12T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/herpes-infections-soar-globally-as-new-study-reveals-massive-disease-burden"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:28:02","slug":"herpes-infections-soar-globally-as-new-study-reveals-massive-disease-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/herpes-infections-soar-globally-as-new-study-reveals-massive-disease-burden","title":{"rendered":"Herpes infections soar globally as new study reveals massive disease burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/herpes-infections-soar-globally-as-new-study-reveals-massive-disease-burden2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regarding oral HSV-1 infections, the global prevalence in 2020 among individuals aged 0\u201349 years was 58.6% (95% UI: 53.5\u201362.1%), equating to approximately 3.4 billion people. The African region exhibited the highest oral HSV-1 prevalence, while the Western Pacific had the largest number of infected individuals.<\/p>\n<p><b>Conclusions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To summarize, in 2020, 26 million individuals aged 15\u201349 acquired new HSV-2 infections, with 520 million living with HSV-2 and 188 million experiencing HSV-2-related GUD. Similarly, 17 million acquired new genital HSV-1 infections, with 376 million living with genital HSV-1 and 17 million experiencing HSV-1-related GUD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding oral HSV-1 infections, the global prevalence in 2020 among individuals aged 0\u201349 years was 58.6% (95% UI: 53.5\u201362.1%), equating to approximately 3.4 billion people. The African region exhibited the highest oral HSV-1 prevalence, while the Western Pacific had the largest number of infected individuals. Conclusions To summarize, in 2020, 26 million individuals aged 15\u201349 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}