More than one in five people aged between 15 and 49 globally or 846 million people live with a genital herpes infection, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO). Every second, ...

Descendants of theme-park escapees, a population of rhesus macaques in a Florida state park may soon double in size—a recipe ...

A study seems to establish a link between oral herpes virus, which causes mouth cold sores, and Alzheimer’s disease. The study was published in Cell Reports on Jan. 2. Herpes simplex virus 1, which is ...

Treatment of FHV-1 ocular disease is challenging; until now, it has been treated less successfully with a pill, but it had to ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

The question: Do condoms, which provide significant protection against HIV, offer similar protection against herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes? This study: It combined data ...

When we think about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), many of us might picture high-profile diseases like HIV or syphilis. However, lurking in the shadows is genital herpes, a condition that ...

The incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in the UK and Ireland increased dramatically over 15 years, and outcomes remained poor, with mortality and long-term neurologic ...

Researchers conclude that a South African experiment of an anti-retroviral vaginal gel tenofovir could prevent between 271,000 and more than a half million new HIV infections in 10 years, depending on ...

Viral infections trigger inflammation that raises heart disease risk, study finds. Vaccination against COVID, flu and ...

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Genome Center outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer's disease in aging brains. In a report published in ...