Herpes [noun]

In the near future, researchers believe, shots that deliver temporary instructions into cells could lead to vaccines against herpes and malaria, better flu vaccines, and, if the covid-19 germ keeps mutating, updated coronavirus vaccinations, too.

Of the thousands of compounds tested, some of Stamets’s extracts from wood-rotting fungi had the strongest activity against a number of deadly viruses, including smallpox, herpes, and flu.

Herpes facialis is often observed in association with colds and febrile and lung diseases.

Shingles, shing′glz, n. popular name for the disease Herpes zoster.

Herpes of the lips sometimes occurs in the commencement of the disease.

Herpes consists of gregarious spreading excoriations, which are succeeded by branny scales or scabs.

Herpes has been described in connection with both adult and infantile scurvy.

Achor is, 'a species of the Herpes;' and Hey, 'an expression of joy.'

Herpes of the lips, due to a mild staphylococcal infection, is common in delicate children and in the early stages of pneumonia.

In 1842–43 Gruby showed that Herpes tonsurans, a form of ringworm, is due to the fungus Trichophyton tonsurans.