Dormant viruses like herpes simplex may loiter for years inside nerve cells.
Not exact matches
These small, mobile and
virus -
like DNA elements have been a part of plant genomes for millions of years and most of the time they lie
dormant and do no harm.
They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but
viruses — or their seed -
like dormant state, known as virions — are outliers in our search for life on other planets.
However, Herpes is a sneaky
virus, and
likes to lie
dormant until it gets a chance to get one up on the immune system.
But when the initial infection was with the cat herpes - 1
virus (
like human fever sore
virus and chicken pox both other types of herpesvirus and both of which also remain
dormant in our bodies) the
virus never really leaves the cat's body.
Is it possible that I'm being protected from the
virus from the shots I did have or am I infected and it's just laying
dormant like it did with him?