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Group: alt.seduction.fast · Group Profile
Author: M2slo2chtM2slo2cht Date: Jul 1, 2008 20:52
hot_chick1003 writes:
> if you knew you were going to be
>infected, would it thus be better to infect a small place on the skin
>somewhere so you didn't have a huge outbreak?
Here's a copy/paste of an explanation I just gave in another thread.
It may help you understand why your idea won't work.
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>This is what I don't really understand. In my reading I remember
>something about an outbreak occurring before symptoms, ie virus being
>present on the skin. So can I be active and not know it yet.
Yes, virus can be shed from the skin even when there is no visible
outbreak. I'll explain further below.
>Second thing is where does the virus appear, only on the site of the
>first outbreak. I don't really understand why other body parts are not
>active.
After infection, the virus sets up housekeeping in the Sacral Ganglia
where it lies dormant most of the time doing no harm. The Sacral
Ganglia is at the base of the spine and is the root of the sensory
nerves serving the skin in the boxer shorts area. Occasionally, the
dormant virus reactivates and starts replicating (pumping out new
viruses) at which point the new viruses travels up a nerve (staying
within the nerve) to the surface of the skin. The location where it
surfaces is dependant upon which nerve it travels. Sometimes it goes
up the same nerve it came in on when infection took place. But it can
also travel up a different nerve to surface in a different location.
The mechanism that causes the dormant virus to reactivate isn't fully
understood but a number of possible triggers are identified. Certain
foods, stress, friction, that sort of thing. Everybody has different
triggers. The choice of which nerve to take to the skin's service
seems to be the path of least resistance but that path is impossible
to predict.
As I mentioned, viral shedding can occur without symptoms but at some
point the volume of virus becomes so great that an outbreak is the
result. So that's why you get virus accumulating on the skin surface
before the symptoms appear.
I hope that helps clear things up a little.
M2
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