This convenient and easily read two-sided card warns that genital herpes is a very widespread and incurable sexually transmitted infection, but one which can be avoided.

It warns that all forms of sex carry the risk of transmission, even if the blisters symptomatic of the disease are not visible.

Prevention stategies recommended include abstention, restricting sex to a single, uninfected partner, and condom use, though it warns that condoms provide only a limited degree of protection.