To identify the link between stress and recurrences of genital herpes, US
researchers followed 58 women with a history of genital herpes over six
months, taking weekly assessments of stress and mood and monthly
assessments of life-change events. They found that transient mood states,
short-term forms of stress and life-change events tend not to cause an
outbreak of lesions. But persistent stress lasting for longer than a week
is more likely to. A moderately stressful experience lasting for more than
a week increased the chance of an occurrence the following week by 26%.
-Nursing Times 95: 49, citing Archives of Internal Medicine, 159:13
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