Question:
About 6-7 years ago, my now ex boyfriend used to get these fever blisters around his mouth (or so he called them). I don't ever remember kissing him when he had them, but nevertheless, I've never gotten them. Is there a chance that his HSV I has been passed on to me from kissing him? We were together for 2 years and lived together for 6 months before we broke it off.
When people refer to cold sores and/or fever blisters, are these both the same thing?
HSV I, right?
Answer:
Yes, and yes. Unless you already had HSVI orally and just never knew it
(I can never remember the statistic but it's something like 80-95% of
adults has it and most got it by age 12)..
This site really does a stellar job of explaining it:
http://herpes.com/hsv1-2.html
But in a nutshell: cold sore=feverblister=HSVI
orally=transmissible=possibility of asymptomatically transmissible.
It's just that people don't have a problem w.cold sores on the mouth the
way they do w. cold sores on the genitals, so it's perceived as
irrelevant.
