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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
1/6th? How can 1 in 6 in the US have it and not know?
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If you don't have an active outbreak, you're not going to know sans blood test.
There are tons of bugs that people have that the immune system keeps in check.
If you have a cat, you're almost guaranteed to have toxoplasmosis. The vast majority of Americans have CMV.
If you had chickenpox when you're a kid, the virus exists in its latent stage in the dorsal root ganglia of your brain, and if you're unlucky, will reactivate and give you shingles later in life.
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