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'It is after all only a cold sore in a different place'
Herpes is often the butt of jokes but 7 out of 10 people over 25 carry the herpes simplex virus. Three women Jess, Sylvia and Marian (Director of the Herpes Virus Association) spoke to Jane Garvey at Woman's Hour about their experience of living with genital herpes and why they wanted to de-mystify and de-stigmatise the virus.
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