Genital herpes is a chronic, recurrent and difficult-to-cure infectious disease caused by the herpes simplex virus, often involving the urogenital and perianal skin and mucous membranes. The main mode of transmission is sexual contact, in order to avoid transmission to the spouse, should be prohibited during the period of illness cohabitation. Genital herpes patients can have no clinical symptoms but still infectious, some patients with atypical symptoms are often missed and become the main source of infection, if genital herpes has skin breakage manifestations, it is more contagious, through the semen, prostate fluids, exudate at the lesions, cervical and vaginal secretions can be transmitted, in order to avoid contagion, the patient should not be mixed with other people’s daily necessities. Genital herpes has a variety of complications, such as viral meningitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, infection of pregnant women can also lead to fetal infection and neonatal herpes, so once diagnosed, should be actively standardized treatment, to avoid the spread and progress of the disease.