When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The virus that causes cold sores can get into the brain, fall latent and then reactivate ...

Source: Photograph by the Public Health Image Library from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention When the virus that came to be known as SARS-CoV-2 hit the news in early 2020, it got the ...

Mosquito-borne viruses can cause more than fevers and joint pain. In severe cases, they invade the brain, leading to seizures, encephalitis, lasting memory loss and sometimes death. But thanks to a ...

Dormant viruses lurking in the brain could be activated by a head injury and trigger Alzheimer's, research has suggested. Studies have long warned that concussions and blows to the head may raise the ...

Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may reactivate latent herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the brain and contribute to neurodegeneration and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology, a ...

AURORA, Colo. — Many people don’t know just how common the virus that causes cold sores is in society. Unfortunately, the news just got worse for those carrying Herpes Simplex Virus type 1.

For many years, scientists have known that the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, can take up residence in parts of neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Stress can even ...

Semliki Forest virus was originally isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest, Uganda, hence the name. Upon systemic infection from mosquito bites, Semliki Forest virus causes mild blood viremia ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, an R1 research institution, transform the way researchers study the human ...