Multiple herpes threads

[EmpressaurusOfCats]

10 herpes threads in Active, is this just a coincidence?

I was wondering that as well @EmpressaurusOfCats , seems v odd.

My guesses are an epidemic or a troll!

I thought I would investigate in case maybe this is a viral (pun intended) marketing campaign and genital herpes infections are increasing following the pandemic https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth/data#page/4/gid/8000035/pat/159/par/K02000001/ati/15/are/E92000001/iid/91046/age/1/sex/4/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/1/cid/4/tbm/1

I comment on most of them as I have a professional interest, can see a couple have popped up in my recent ‘Threads I’m On’, there was seemingly a troll doing the rounds last night but the replies have all been blitzed by MNHQ already so don’t know what they said.

Thanks for asking about this. It looks like we had a visit from a spammer this morning who'd reactivated multiple zombie threads to post their 'magic' healing temple nonsense... yep, like that's going to cure herpes.

We've deleted all of the posts and sent the spammer on his way.

Thanks @JoMumsnet.