The nurse is providing education to a patient who has genital herpes simplex. The nurse should include the information that
a. this infection can be cured with appropriate antiviral medication.
b. the disease cannot be transmitted unless lesions are visible.
c. contraceptive foams can help prevent transmission.
d. although the infection is present for life, recurrences generally are less severe and shorter in duration.
D
Recurrences of genital herpes generally are less severe and do not last as long.
No antiviral medication is available that can cure herpes.
The disease can be transmitted when lesions are not visible.
Contraceptive foams do not help prevent transmission.
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