I always thought negatives was people who either haven’t had sex yet or haven’t had sex outside a closed loop.
I’d be interested to see percentage effected normalized by number of partners. (Not interested enough to look it up now though)
I’d be interested to see percentage effected normalized by number of partners. (Not interested enough to look it up now though)
EBV is also known as HSV-4 and gets to 60% plus prevalence in children, 90% in US adults. If there are populations with especially low prevalence I'm not aware of it.
HSV-1 which causes mouth cold sores is present in 50-80% of people, also easily acquired in childhood. Only 20-40% of infected people get cold sores so most infected people don't realize they have it.
Chicken pox/shingles is also a type of herpes virus with well known massive prevalence!
Genital herpes is just one of many types of herpes viruses that affect humans.