When the seventh season of Love Island USA premiered, an X user had a prophecy: “The entire Love Island franchise can be brought down by a single cold sore.” Dramatic? Yes. A joke? Probably. Were they ...

Just when you thought the "Love Island USA" drama was winding down, it looks like one cast member is again stirring up one of the most unexpected controversies on the show. In a recent interview with ...

Cold sores, also known as fever blisters, can appear on your mouth or lip and are usually caused by oral herpes or herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). “It’s extremely ubiquitous,” says Alexandra ...

Herpes on the penis looks like clusters of small, fluid-filled blisters. After the initial outbreak, the sores can recur during moments of illness, stress, or fatigue. Genital herpes is a sexually ...

Genital herpes is a common and incurable sexually transmitted disease (STD). It’s so prevalent in the United States that about 1 in 6 people ages 14 to 49 have it. More American women than men have ...

“To completely cure HSV-1, the idea is to prevent the virus from going into latency, because then, it’s protected by our own bodies,” said Esther González-Almela, a virologist at the Guangdong Academy ...