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Are Herpes Tests Accurate? The Truth Everyone Gets Wrong.

Shameless Care Episode 56

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Everyone says herpes screening tests aren’t “accurate”… but is that actually true?
In this week’s podcast, we break it all down: specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, IgG versus IgM — everything you could possibly want to know about herpes simplex virus antibody testing (and probably a few things you didn’t know you needed).

If you’ve ever wondered why these tests are so misunderstood — or why people panic over results that don’t mean what they think they mean — this episode will make everything finally click.

Oh, and of course: our dirty joke of the week