Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

For the first time, scientists have captured how new antiviral drugs halt the herpes virus in real time as it tries to ...

HSV-1 usually causes oral herpes, while HSV-2 primarily affects the genitals. You may not know you have herpes because it ...

Herpes simplex is a viral infection that has been known to mankind for centuries. Genital herpes infection is one of the most well known types of herpes and is therefore usually called "herpes" ...

Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2) is one of two types of the herpes virus and is rarely transmitted orally. However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. As is the case with other medical conditions, ...

Editor's note, May 20, 2024: In September 2022, Fred Hutch News covered a preprint describing the successful application in mice of a gene-editing strategy to cure herpes. Fred Hutch Cancer Center ...

Two viruses, herpes simplex 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex 2 (HSV-2), can cause a genital herpes infection. The two viruses are closely related but not identical. HSV-1 is also the most common cause of ...

Parents lose their baby to HSV-1 virus 10 days after her birth. Oct. 31, 2008 — -- For about a week, Charlotte Raveney and Mohamed Eisawy's daughter Mira was a happy, bubbly baby. Her delivery ...

Most people are surprised to find out that two types of herpes viruses -- the one that causes cold sores and the one that causes chickenpox -- can cause a condition called herpetic eye disease. Unlike ...