Well again, 80% of the population as oral HSV1... and people generally just live with it... it's a nuisance skin condition. The only thing now is that people who have it need to be educated to be careful with oral sex simply because it's possible to spread it that way... but it doesn't mean you have to stop giving oral. It just means finding out their status and being more careful about not doing anything if either person has any open skin on the face (giver) or genitals (receiver) ....
And I'm going to tell you something I tell everyone: STAY OFF GOOGLE IMAGES!!!! They post the worst of the worst images there which are likely people with Herpes who were severely immune compromised, so they have a really bad outbreak.
Again, don't over-protect him and coddle him. Odds are FAR higher he will get it from another kid in his school or whatever. I have a 4 yr old granddaughter and I still kiss her (lightly) unless I think something is going on, in which case I give her a big bear hug and she doesn't know that there's a reason for the huge hug.... ;)
As for cures: well, we've been promised them for years. There are some studies in the works. But H doesn't kill us, so most research money goes to thing that, in the minds of the medical world, are more urgent like Cancer and COPD and Heart Disease. HIV studies have helped us to understand more about the bodie's immune system with incurable "bugs" so it's possible someone will come up with something, but the FDA is a slow moving slug, so don't hold your breath. There are FAR worse things than having Herpes, believe me. I almost dies from an ectopic pregnancy. When you go through that, it kinda puts this little virus in perspective :)
(((HUGS)))
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