Herpes outbreak at Stagecoach country music festival

Herpes outbreak at Stagecoach festival featuring country stars Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean: More than 100 people diagnosed with the STD last weekend, screening app reveals

  • Last weekend, 114 people were diagnosed and sought treatment for the sexually-transmitted disease in Indio and Coachella Valley
  • Earlier this month, 250 people were diagnosed with herpes on Coachella’s first weekend 

Herpes rates are high at Stagecoach, California’s annual country music festival which follows Coachella. 

Last weekend, 114 people were diagnosed and sought treatment for the sexually-transmitted disease in Indio and Coachella Valley, HerpAlert reports. 

The all-male festival headliners were Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, and Jason Aldean, with performances from Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Jones.

That is almost half the amount diagnosed in the first weekend of Coachella earlier this month, which came to 250. 

HerpAlert normally deals with 12 cases a day in that region.

 114 people were diagnosed and sought treatment for the sexually-transmitted disease in Indio and Coachella Valley (file image)

Herpes is an incurable, infectious disease transmitted by contact. 

But while the virus cannot be eliminated, it can be treated very well – better than most other viruses, such as measles. 

There are seven types of herpes virus, but two ‘herpes simplex’ viruses, which cause genital herpes and cold sores.

HSV-1 affects the mouth, nose and back (cold sores).

HSV-2 affects the genitals and buttocks. 

Starting medication within 12 to 24 hours of infection helps to crush the virus in its early stages. 

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