Enter your age in years. Due to available data, most accurate if between 14-50.
Choose your biological sex
Choose the race that best describes you. Other is avaible but likely less accurate due to sample size
How many people currently live in your household? Alternatively, pick the average household size throughout your life. Decimal answer ok.
In years, at what age did you lose your virginity (oral sex included). Input 0 if you are a virgin.
Where you born inside the USA/ a United states citizen at birth?
Enter number of sexual partners, including oral sex, you have had in your lifetime.
Did you graduate college. Yes can be checked if you are certain you will attend and graduate college at a later date.
What is your household income in US dollars?
Variables were chosen in an unbiased fashion. The large dataset from CDC NHANES contained many demographic and questionnaire data. Variables were chosen on whether they were significantly correlated to individuals having the herpes virus.
The NHANES questionnaire was a broad survey and did not ask questions directly related to Herpes. While these variables are correlated, none of these inputs should be interpreted as a causative on Herpes prevalence and chance. If the questionnaire included more questions involving the spread of Herpes, the would likely be included in the calculator.
The bar graph shows the variable inputs you provided as compared to the averages from the dataset. An increased household size is correlated to an increased chance of HSV1. A lower age of lost virginity is correlated to an increased chance of having HSV1. A higher number of lifetime partners is correlated with an increased chance of having HSV1.
The line graph shows three lines. The extrapolated averages based on the most recent CDC Herpes prevalence statistics is shown in grey. This line is not based on the calculator and is from different years due to the availability of released CDC data. The blue line shows your chance to have herpes over time with only age as an increasing factor. The purple line takes into account the average partners per year you have had since losing your virginity and uses that value to extrapolate how many partners you will have in the future (‘partners per year’ = ‘life time partners’/(‘age’ - ‘age you lost virginity’)). Note: many assumptions are made in this future Herpes chance extrapolation and likely not to be as accurate.