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Herpes is spread by direct contact with the rashes, sores, or blisters of an infected person.
This can happen during oral, vaginal, anal sex or genital contact. Symptoms of herpes usually appear about 2 to 20 days after sexual contact with an infected person. Blisters, rashes or sores appear where the virus entered the body. The common site are mouth, vagina, cervix, penis, anus, buttocks, or around the genitals. With the first infection, there may be fever, joint pain, flu-like symptoms, pain when passing urine, itching, tingling and enlarged tender glands.