9/24    Does genital herpes transmit from mother to child?
           \_ It's possible... but in 99.9999999999 percent of the time
              it won't happen.  While the kid is in gestation, the kid
              shares in the antibodies the mother generates and is immune
              while going through the birth canal (note this doesn't help
              the kid later in life when he/she starts slutting it up).
              there is this window where the mother gets infected with HSV,
              doesn't know it, has not developed the hsv antibodies,
              and gives birth, then the kid has a slight
              chance of catching eye herpes and being born blind or with
              a brain infection.  you avoid this by giving the mother
              a c-section.
              \_ Yeah, if the mother is at a high risk herpes outbreak
                 (which is very rare when about to give birth) the
                 doctors will strongly recommend a c-section.
        \_ It can, and it can do so dangerously.  See the wikipedia
           article.
           \_ It's possible... but in 99.9999999999 percent of the time
              it won't happen.  While the kid is in gestation, the kid
              shares in the antibodies the mother generates and is immune
              while going through the birth canal (note this doesn't help
              the kid later in life when he/she starts slutting it up).
              there is this window where the mother gets infected with HSV,
              doesn't know it, has not developed the hsv antibodies,
              and gives birth, then the kid has a slight
              chance of catching eye herpes and being born blind or with
              a brain infection.  you avoid this by giving the mother
              a c-section.
              \_ Yeah, if the mother is at a high risk herpes outbreak
                 (which is very rare when about to give birth) the
                 doctors will strongly recommend a c-section.