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 ...

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, ...

The question: Do condoms, which provide significant protection against HIV, offer similar protection against herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes? This study: It combined ...

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) ...

People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those who have never been infected. A new study from Uppsala University ...

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 ...