STD EXAMINATION: WANDA AND MIKE’S STORY
Wanda and Mike were relieved when they went to pick up their HIV results and found out that they both had tested negative. They had decided that if they were going to be sexually involved, they first wanted to be tested for HIV and know that “everything was O.K.” Although the nurse who tested them explained that HIV tests were only one part of an STD screen, they weren’t interested in testing for other infections, because “only HIV can kill you.”
They became sexually intimate without using condoms. Six months into their relationship, Mike developed small, painful blisters on his penis that tested positive for culture for herpes simplex 2. Wanda had a herpes blood test, which showed that she, too, was positive for herpes simplex 2 and that, although she had never shown any symptoms, she had most likely transmitted the infection to Mike. If they had been tested earlier in their relationship, and had found out that Wanda was positive for herpes and Mike was not, Mike and Wanda could have decided whether they wanted to take precautions to help decrease the chance that Mike would become infected.
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