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 ...

Outcomes of neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis are worse after infection with HSV-2 when compared with HSV-1. The proteins herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) and nectin-1 mediate ...

Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) remains a common cause of unilateral corneal disease. Despite intense research over three decades, the mainstay of therapy continues to be topical and, more recently, ...

Medical researchers found a new way genetics influences the body's antiviral response by studying a life-threatening disease caused by a common virus: herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). A collaboration ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV1) infections are initiated at mucosal surfaces where the virus infects epithelial cells. When HSV1 spreads from the peripheral nerves and into the central nervous system, it ...

Herpes simplex virus causes the only viral encephalitis with an effective antiviral treatment; early treatment improves outcomes. Most cases in adults are caused by HSV-1 and occur equally in both ...

Rhian Brace shared her son Ernie's medical journey on Facebook One mom is speaking out about her baby’s medical ordeal to raise awareness. In a Facebook post that has received 3,000 likes and 1,200 ...

New research suggests that just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin cell in the first stage of an outbreak, resulting in a bottleneck in which the infection may be vulnerable to ...

Cold sores are common infections in children. They’re also called fever blisters, oral herpes, or herpes labialis. Despite their name, cold sores don’t have anything to do with colds. Cold sores are ...