Genital Herpes

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look at genital herpes. According to the paper, genital herpes is a type of sexually transmitted disease which is caused by the herpes simplex viruses (HSV) type 1 and type 2. The paper discusses how genital herpes can affect both men and women and that it is highly contagious.

Outline:
Introduction
Epidemiology
Causes and Symptoms
Treatment
Complications
Life with Genital Herpes
Nursing Plans

From the Paper:

"Stress, as it was pointed out, was one of the reasons why there could be a recurrence of genital herpes symptoms. Psychological stress may have been causing it, but the recurrence itself can, of course, result to more stress to the infected person. There have been numbers of studies that show that recurrences of genital herpes are related with psychological morbidity, and the extent of which seems to be directly related to the frequency of recurrences (Taboulet, et. al., 1999). This is just an expected outcome for any person who will be diagnosed with genital herpes will not only worry about how to cure or prevent the occurrence of another outbreak, but will also worry or think about how others might view him/her as an infected person. A person with the genital virus will be feared by the opposite sex in the same manner that the infected person will of course tend to shy away from getting into another intimate relationship. As it is pointed out, the virus will never leave the body of the infected person, it will just stay there and will threat to become active again if the immune system of the person becomes very low. This is the every reason why the person will be very insecure of him/herself. This is the same reason why others will shy away from the infected person. Other people will, of course, not want to be infected by the virus. Some might even falsely think that the virus by just talking to the person or touching the things used by the infected person."

Sample of Sources Used:

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