By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 United BioPharma announced this week that Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology have joined United...

Why do some people with cold sores around their lips experience painful lesions, while others have no symptoms at all, yet still spread the virus? A new study conducted at Penn State finds that these differences...

A genetically edited form of a herpes simplex virus — rewired to keep it from taking refuge in the nervous system and eluding an immune response — has outperformed a leading vaccine candidate...

The World Health Organization announced Friday that billions of people across the globe are living with herpes infections. According to the UN health agency, some 500,000,000 estimated people worldwide...

Ireland health officials are reporting an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), prompting calls for the public of the importance of using condoms to protect against STIs. According to the...

A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published this week shows that rates of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and herpes...

Neonatal herpes is a rare but potentially devastating complication of genital herpes during pregnancy, which can cause brain damage, breathing problems, seizures and even death. Neonatal herpes infection...

In a study appearing in the December 20 issue of JAMA, Anna Wald, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Washington & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and colleagues compared the medications...

Cambridge, Mass. biopharmaceutical company, Genocea Biosciences, Inc., announced this week positive 12 month efficacy data from its Phase 2 dose optimization trial evaluating GEN-003 for the treatment...

More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the population – are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to WHO’s first global estimates of HSV-1 infection published...