To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
More medical attention needed for HSV
We need to act now to stop the spread of HSV. Medical doctors need to treat the disease more seriously.
Why is this important?
Dear Friends,
We need your help. We have started a petition for better HSV testing from the medical profession. According to the Center for Disease and Control, there are over 19 million people newly diagnosed with herpes each year. Why is that? Unfortunately, many treat herpes as a joke, and do not get tested. In fact many aren’t aware that both HSV1 (commonly associated with cold sores) and HSV2 can both be transmitted genitally, when no sores are present. Many in the medical profession do not test for HSV1 because they consider it the “safer one” and “everyone has that one.” Some people do not get tested because “they have never experienced an outbreak;” however, that does not mean that they do not carry the virus, or they cannot transmit it to an unsuspected partner. For newly infected people, the one blood test (Western Blot) that can tell you accurately which type you have is not covered by medical insurance and costs $400 because herpes is considered cosmetic.
Cosmetic? How are acne treatments covered by insurance companies and herpes is not? Some studies of herpes has been linked to: cervical cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and has been known to cause brain damage and death if mothers pass it on to newborn children. We ask that you sign this petition, putting more pressure on the government and insurance companies to start treating herpes more seriously, and test people for HSV2 and HSV1. By signing the petition, it does not mean you have herpes, although if you have never been tested before, and can afford the $400 we urge you to do so. It just means you want better testing for you and your love ones.
Thank you for your time. To end on an upbeat note, a cure is close. A team at Duke University believes they found a cure, however, their research is stalled due to lack of funding. For more information, updates, and to share your thoughts, please visit our Facebook page - Oral STD. Please note, any commercial product advertisement or negative comments will be deleted.
Thank you!
Fondly,
Amanda Jones
We need your help. We have started a petition for better HSV testing from the medical profession. According to the Center for Disease and Control, there are over 19 million people newly diagnosed with herpes each year. Why is that? Unfortunately, many treat herpes as a joke, and do not get tested. In fact many aren’t aware that both HSV1 (commonly associated with cold sores) and HSV2 can both be transmitted genitally, when no sores are present. Many in the medical profession do not test for HSV1 because they consider it the “safer one” and “everyone has that one.” Some people do not get tested because “they have never experienced an outbreak;” however, that does not mean that they do not carry the virus, or they cannot transmit it to an unsuspected partner. For newly infected people, the one blood test (Western Blot) that can tell you accurately which type you have is not covered by medical insurance and costs $400 because herpes is considered cosmetic.
Cosmetic? How are acne treatments covered by insurance companies and herpes is not? Some studies of herpes has been linked to: cervical cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and has been known to cause brain damage and death if mothers pass it on to newborn children. We ask that you sign this petition, putting more pressure on the government and insurance companies to start treating herpes more seriously, and test people for HSV2 and HSV1. By signing the petition, it does not mean you have herpes, although if you have never been tested before, and can afford the $400 we urge you to do so. It just means you want better testing for you and your love ones.
Thank you for your time. To end on an upbeat note, a cure is close. A team at Duke University believes they found a cure, however, their research is stalled due to lack of funding. For more information, updates, and to share your thoughts, please visit our Facebook page - Oral STD. Please note, any commercial product advertisement or negative comments will be deleted.
Thank you!
Fondly,
Amanda Jones