Category (Skin, General, Viral, Contagious)	Viral Infections Characterized By Skin And Mucous Membrane Lesions
System	Integumentary System
Organ	Skin, Mucous membranes
Alternate Names /Common Names	Cold sores Fever blisters
Names in different languages	Parisarp in Hindi Salipi in Telgu Tanjun herupesu in Japanese l'herpès simplex in French Dānchún pàozhěn in Chinese
ICD 10 Classification	B 00
World statistic	35 to 40% of the world’s population is estimated to be afflicted with Oral Herpes
Indian statistics	33.3% of Indian population is seropositive for HSV-1
Most prevalent in	There is a worldwide distribution of Herpes Some countries have very high seroprevalence of HSV e.g: Central African Republic (99%), Morocco (99%), Syria (80 to 100%), Turkey (97%), Mali (93%), Uganda (91%)