instruction: hello doctor I am a 35 year old male no episodes of helps except chickenpox in childhood no infection of hiv clinically tested every six months for the last seven years my partner and I both are not having hiv clinically tested I had a bacterial or fungal infection with pus and redness in the genital area so I have done the blood test hiv is negative hsv egg 5 positive hsv i'm 29 negative hsv egg 45 negative hsv i'm 69 negative as hsv is mostly non genital infection I did not have any episodes of hsv type helps in my life I never had hsv type herpes anywhere in the body I am straight and have a relationship only with my spouse how can blood show hsv egg positive without any symptoms dermatologist says it is due to past infection and not about present infection doctor told I should take antiviral dose acyclovir for 20 days for hsv egg past infection is it useful to take antiviral dose for the past hsv type infection will it reduces egg level in the blood is hsv egg is false positive
output: hi first understand the situation i'm indicates recent infection and egg indicate chronic infection since you have both the i'm negative it means that there is no recent infection secondly about 70 80 of us population is hav herpes simplex virus positive it means they are infected once in a life time and antibodies will remain for throughout life but it does not mean that 80 of us population should start taking acyclovir there are no guidelines for taking acyclovir until you are symptomatic so do not think too much about this figure if you had any other problems you can revert back to me