1,105 cases have been reported in two weekends of the music festival.
Coachella-surrounding areas have seen a significant increase in the number of reported cases of herpes in the after two weekends of the music festival.
On a normal day, HerpAid digitally serves around 12 patients. As soon as two days into the music festival, though, nearly 250 people wrote in with their STD concerns, nearly a tenfold increase from an average day. Since then, more than 1,105 cases have been reported, HerpAid told TMZ. The oral virus is easily spread through mouth-to-mouth contact, according to the organization. It can be assumed the Coachella virus may have spread through kissing and other forms of skin-on-skin contact. Herpes cannot be passed through sharing food or drink, only through sexual and skin-to-skin contact, according to Planned Parenthood.
Though the potential herpes outbreak at Coachella is certainly not a reported trend from past years at the festival, jokes about contracting the common STD at the fest have circulated online for years. A simple Twitter search brings up dozens of conversations of mockery against Coachella-goers.
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