Genital herpes is a 'forgotten' virus. But that doesn't mean it's gone away.

"It is incredibly valuable [to have these new estimates], so that it is not the forgotten virus forever," says Dr. Keith Jerome, a professor of virology at Fred Hutch.

Laith Abu-Raddad states, 'one of the first questions he's asked is whether case counts are going up or down. The answer...is not so simple.'

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