Is Genital Herpes HSV1 in latent phase curable Is there any vaccination for it? - Dr. Teena S Thomas

HSV 1 or Herpes Simplex Virus 1 infection is usually a contagious disease. Usually the type 1 is oral herpes. So it lands up into oral sores and blisters in and around the mouth and on the face and can extend upto the eye too. But it is usually the oral herpes. But usually during the cold sore present with an infected oral cold sore. If you go for oral sex, you can land up into genital herpes with HSV1. Herpes Simplex Virus is non-curable. There is no cure for the virus. It stays inside your body. It sticks into the trigeminal nerve in the body and stays latent there. During the times of any other infection, decreased immunity in the body or any persistent fever or any other drugs involved or pregnancies. The viral infections at that point, herpes can flare up and can come back with sores and blisters. So they can becomes actively infected at any point of time in their lifetime when their immunity is less. But at other points of time the virus just lies down latent in the nerves of the human being, but there is no cure to it and you cannot eradicate it once you have got it in your body and there is no vaccination against HSV.