[QUOTE=Cperry123;3669404]Yes, I am aware that the study is from the CDC however, that fact alone does not make the report viable. Again, can you produce a link so that I can read the report for myself. I would like to know if it was peer reviewed. Also, what neighborhoods in Massachusetts did they conduct the statistical analysis. You see any report can be skewed. For example, say they did STI testing in white majority affluent neighborhoods with only Caucasians and tested improvised neighborhoods with only African-Americans / blacks. Is one to concluded that it is by race or income or education level?[/QUOTE]It was a nationwide study. Highest incidents of HSV-2 were found in the southern states. Again, nobody is singling out blacks, all other races are mentioned as well, blacks just had the highest numbers. There are in fact diseases that some races are more susceptible to, that's just science. For example white females are more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease. We don't know why, but that's what the statistics show. Whether or not that's the case with HSV-2 or not is unknown. It's not something you can easily conduct research on without intentionally trying to infect people with it, which is obviously highly unethical. For all we know blood type may play a role. We already know that certain blood types are predisposed to some diseases (people with AB blood type for example are more susceptible to heart disease), and Rh- blood types are very rare in non-whites, but obviously this wouldn't explain the lower HSV-2 incidence in Asians. There's no reason to doubt the accuracy of the CDC study, but there's no real explanation for the results yet either. As I said before, more information is needed.
There are 9 different HSV types by the way, and this study was only about HSV-2. In addition remember that HSV-2 is not necessarily synonymous with genital herpes. The CDC also says that 57% of the US population has HSV-1, and nobody ever questions that. But HSV-1 can infect the genitals too.
Don't try to read anything in to what I'm saying, I'm merely quoting the statistics posted by the CDC.
[URL]https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/stats.htm[/URL]
Stay safe, and happy hunting.
