Herpes is one of the most common viral infections in the world, yet it remains widely misunderstood. Caused by the herpes ...

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, ...

Nov. 19 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Herpes, the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital lesions, never truly goes into a dormant state, new research suggests. As a matter of ...

Learn what scientific research and experts say about the evidence for common home remedies for herpes, including honey, lemon balm, and petroleum jelly.

A phase 3 trial finds pritelivir significantly improves cure rates for immunocompromised individuals with refractory HSV infections.

Pritelivir met its primary endpoint of superior lesion healing, achieving a 62.7% lesion healing rate compared to 34.0% with standard-of-care ...

Researchers are hard at work on new treatments to fight genital herpes, otherwise known as herpes simplex virus 2. Pritelivir is a new class of drugs that targets the DNA of the virus and stops it ...

A herpes virus that infects humans originated in chimpanzees before it jumped into early human ancestors, according to a new study. Researchers found that herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infected ...

Q: My doctor just told me that I have herpes. I don’t know if I got it from my last boyfriend or the one-night stand I had after we broke up. I'm so upset, I feel like I never want to have sex again.

A recent paper published in Rheumatology reported six female patients who developed herpes zoster infections within 3 to 14 days of receiving either the first or second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech ...

A Canadian natural experiment analysis found herpes zoster vaccination was associated with fewer incident dementia diagnoses ...