Genital Herpes May Never Go Dormant

Herpes, the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital lesions, never truly goes into a dormant state, new research suggests.
As a matter of fact, even when it's not causing an outbreak, the virus is shedding tiny bits of itself in the genital tract. The study for these findings appears in the Nov. 18 issue of Science Translational Medicine.While the study did not specifically address whether or not the very small amounts of virus being continually shed are enough to infect someone else, the findings have the potential to change the way in which scientists view the life cycle of the disease.
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