Herpes
Causes
  • It is transmitted by direct contact with an active sore or gentle secretion containing viruses.
  • This disease can be transmitted by people who show no symptoms.
Symptoms
  • Symptoms occur two to ten days after exposure, and general lasts for two to three weeks.
  • The initial outbreak is worse.
  • HSV-1 causes cold sores around the mouth. HSV-2 causes the same thing but around the genitals.
  • The virus produces flu-like symptoms such as: muscle aches, swollen glands, fever, and sometimes shooting in the legs and the abdomen. Symptoms will subside without treatment.
Treatments/ Cures
  • Some antiviral drugs such as acy clovir can help relieve the severity of the symptoms by reducing the number of outbreaks and the duration of the attacks.
Fast Facts
  • There's over 90 members in the Herpes family.
  • Herpes effects anything from humans to fungi.
  • Herpes is Greek for to crawl.
  • The two kinds of herpes humans get are Hsv-1 and Hsv-2
  • HSV-1 was first described by a Roman doctor named Herodotus around 100 A.M. He described it as a "herpetic eruptions which appear around the mouth at the crisis of simple fevers.
  • HSV-2 was publicly reported 1,600 years later by a Frenchman named Astral.
  • Once it is inside the body it is impossible to eradicate.
  • They can survive an entire lifetime in the host, hiding in the nerve endings.
Appearance
  • A normal cell that looks like it has a big bump on it.

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