Cold sores are common infections in children. They’re also called fever blisters, oral herpes, or herpes labialis. Despite their name, cold sores don’t have anything to do with colds. Cold sores are ...

Ocular herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection is a global public health concern and a leading cause of infectious blindness. HSV type 1 predominantly affects the eye, establishing latency in the ...

Very early exposure to even a very small dose of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infant mice can lead to cognitive decline later in life, according to findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, in ...

In a recent study published in the Virology Journal, a group of researchers evaluated the antiviral efficacy and therapeutic potential of harmol in treating herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) induced ...

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Medical researchers found a new way genetics influences the body's antiviral response by studying a life-threatening disease caused by a common virus: herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). A collaboration ...

Sometimes people will have triggers that are personal to them, says Adigun. “For example, spicy foods may be a trigger for someone. But more than likely spicy foods may be just for them, whereas we ...

In an Australian first, a Canberra man has been convicted of giving genital herpes to a sexual partner. The man pleaded ...

Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have injected a genetically engineered virus directly into the brain ...

A class of antivirals called Pin1 inhibitors could reduce or stop outbreaks of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), the common infection behind oral herpes, according to new research published in Antiviral ...

Biopsy and next-generation sequencing identified an HSV 1 variant causing ulcerative esophagitis and ileitis in a healthy 26 ...