More than one in five people aged between 15 and 49 globally or 846 million people live with a genital herpes infection, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO). Every second, ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Infection with the virus that’s the main cause of cold sores may double a person’s risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. Adding to growing evidence of a link between the two, further ...

It's estimated that almost half of the world's population - about 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 - are infected with (HSV-1), which can cause oral herpes. About half a billion people between ...

Q: Pretty much everyone I know gets cold sores from time to time. Now I see a study saying that cold sores are somehow connected to Alzheimer's. Can you explain? A: As researchers have worked to ...

ABI-1179 demonstrated a favorable safety profile with all treatment-emergent adverse events being mild and not related to the study treatment. The investigational drug ABI-1179 exceeded targeted ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen. Viruses ...

Genital herpes cost the world $35.3 billion (€32.9 billion) in medical care and lost productivity in a single year, new estimates show. In 2016, the viral strain that causes genital herpes (HSV-2) and ...