Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may reactivate latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the brain and contribute to neurodegeneration and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, a ...

AURORA, Colo. — Many people don’t know just how common the virus that causes cold sores is in society. Unfortunately, the news just got worse for those carrying Herpes Simplex Virus type 1.

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For many years, scientists have known that the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, can take up residence in parts of neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Stress can even ...

A previously unknown defence mechanism in the brain prevents herpesvirus from infecting the brain's nerve cells. More than half of us are carriers of chronic herpesvirus infections. But even though ...

Semliki Forest virus was originally isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest, Uganda, hence the name. Upon systemic infection from mosquito bites, Semliki Forest virus causes mild blood viremia ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus that causes the illness - SARS-CoV-2 - has had innumerable opportunities to mutate and change, and the virus has certainly taken advantage of those ...

This is a tick on a plant in China. Scientists are warning of a new virus discovered in China that spreads to humans through tick bites, with the potential to cause problems in the brain. zhang ...

A mutation on the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19 could help it infect the brain by forcing it to use a cellular "back door." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

“We just want the public to know what to look for,” said Erin Boyce after her brother Kevin died from Powassan virus Getty Kevin Boyce was hospitalized in April 2024 with a severe case of Powassan ...

Source: Photograph by the Public Health Image Library from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention When the virus that came to be known as SARS-CoV-2 hit the news in early 2020, it got the ...

A virus that most adults on Earth have been exposed to has a sneaky route into the brain, and a world-first study has now ...