Many who have this incurable virus are asymptomatic, others may have genital warts. This virus also causes cancer, killing over 4,900 women each year. Genital Herpes Is an incurable virus. It may cause painful blisters around the sexual area, which can reoccur over a lifetime. A person can be contagious with or without blisters.
Herpes can be fatal if passed to a newborn.
Since herpes is transmitted skin to skin, condoms give little protection. Those with HIV have no symptoms but are contagious. Program History and Contact Information Mitchell County Hospital in conjunction with the Texas Department of Health started a new sexual abstinence education campaign throughout the schools in Mitchell County during the 1999 Spring Semester. The main focus of the program has been to inform the students about the dangers of having sex outside of a committed marriage relationship. The programs were presented to 721 students, grades 6-12 throughout the county.