Shameless Care Podcast

Are Herpes Tests Accurate? The Truth Everyone Gets Wrong.

Shameless Care Episode 56

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