The Results of Infection With Herpes

Recurrent ulcerations of the skin and genitalia, due to reactivation of latent herpes simplex viruses residing in the nervous system, are often physically and emotionally crippling. 

Eye infections, which may lead to blindness, are responsible for 5% of patient visits to ophthalmology clinics. 

HSV-2 infections cause serious and sometimes fatal conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis, miscarriages, fetal deaths, birth defects and other hard-to-treat infections of the newborn. 

HSV-2 causes neoplastic transformation in cultured cells and induces severe hyperproliferative lesions in some patients.

 The risk of infection with HIV (human immuno deficiency virus)---the cause of AIDS--- is increased in patients with chronic genital herpes simplex virus infections.

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