Research Paper On Herpesviruses

Herpesviridae is a family of DNA viruses that generate diseases in animals and humans. Herpesviruses is an known family member of Herpesviridae and the name originated from the greek word herpin or to creep. Common symptoms are they start out as blisters that eventually break open in sores that scab over,headaches,backaches ,fatigue, flu like symptoms. Herpes can not be treated but the symptoms can be lessen and prevented with treatment. To begin with, there are in total eight herpesvirvus types that affect the human such as herpes varicella-zoster virus,simplex viruses,human herpesvirus,Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and human cytomegalovirus. But there are over 130 herpesviruses affecting animals as well such as birds, fish, reptiles as well as much more.According to the CDC in the United States, about 1 out of every 6 people aged 14 to 49 years have genital herpes.The popularity of HSV-2 was nearly twice as high among women and was …show more content…
Herpes simplex virus infections is an huge global health problem and there’s no current vaccine for it. According to Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have created a genetic mutant lacking that protein that advantage of a protein found on the virus outer surface of and works against it. The result is an effective vaccine against herpes viruses.The vaccine was affect for the two most common forms of herpes HSV-1 and HSV-2.There’s no exact date when the herpes virus was the discovered but in