It wasn't fun having recurring cold sores, but it was truly mortifying to discover that her painful mouth sores were caused by the herpes virus. Yes, the 16-year-old knew it wasn't "that kind' of ...

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin ...

After joking about sharing ChapStick at a youth tournament, Cunningham said she was dealing with a cold sore - not genital ...

Cold sores are most at home on the mouth, but they’re also known to pop up in other places now and again. Fortunately for anyone who has ever worried about getting a cold sore on the hand, sexual ...

Patients aged ≥ 18 years with HSV culture-positive persistent (i.e. non-healing) herpetic lesions or who were experiencing culture-positive HSV recurrences (≥ 1 every other month) from seven centres ...

A woman says she left Sephora in October 2015 with something she definitely didn’t go to the makeup giant to pick up: herpes. The California customer is now suing the retailer, claiming she contracted ...

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Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Most people infected with the virus that causes genital herpes don’t know they have it; their ...

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More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 -- about 67 percent of the global population -- are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to a new report from the World Health ...