The herpes simplex virus type one or HSV-1 is usually the cause of fever blisters. Even more so than the herpes simplex virus type 2 or HSV-2. These infections follow the usual course of herpes simplex virus infections in that the first outbreak is usually more painful and lasts longer than recurrent infections.
In The News: A Possible Way of Stopping the Virus In an independent, peer-reviewed and published University clinical trial, it was demonstrated that an antiviral gel reduced colony forming HSV cells from 100% to less than 1.0% in under an hour. That means an unprecedented 99.0% of the virus was destroyed in 1 hour. Read more here.
