BioNTech in Mainz, Germany, is expected to initiate first-in-human trials for mRNA vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and genital herpes in the coming weeks.
Finally, individuals with burn injuries or with atopic dermatitis can have really serious herpes infections in those areas, the latter even has a specific name—eczema herpeticum.
People who have recovered from shingles, a virus infection that affects your nervous system, can be left with an unexplainable, never-ending itch once the rash recedes.
In a similar study, researchers studied a group of student nurses and found that the nurses who developed cold sores were the ones who described themselves as generally unhappy people.
The results from the two studies suggest that coinfection by aav2 and adenovirus -- or sometimes possibly a herpesvirus called hhv6, which was found in a few children -- is the cause of the mysterious hepatitis illness.