Genital herpes are chronic.
Herpes infection have acute onset. But the infection persist in posterior root ganglion for life time. So it can be called as chronic disease with acute onset probably.
Herpes zoster has an acute phase when the skin lesions are present. In a week or two, the skin lesions resolve, and then many people have a chronic pain syndrome for months or years afterwards.
Any sexual activity involving genital-genital contact can transmit the herpes virus.
You can't get genital herpes from irritating the tissues from a baby wipe.
I'm assuming the question refers to Genital Herpes. Herpes is officially labeled as a Virus, and being a virus it is officially known to have no cure.
He also has the plague.
Acute disease
chronic disease
Our vet said 90 percent of cats have herpes, but that sounded very high. Does anyone know how accurate the vet's response is?
Acute and chronic. Acute is short term and chronic is ongoing.
Fracture acute
There are several types of microbes that could cause infection and they may be acute chronic or latent infections. A microbe that could cause an acute infection is rhinovirus, one that could cause a chronic infection is hepatitis C and one that could cause a latent infection is herpes zoster.