In the August issue of the journal there was a mistake in the paper by A Wald et al (Oral shedding of herpese simplex virus type 2. Sex Transm Infect 2004;80:272–6). In table four the first column, second line currently states “genital HSV-1 shedding rates”, however, it should read “oral hsv-1 shedding rates” and on the fourth line “oral HSV-1 shedding rate” should read as “genital HSV-1 shedding rate.