An international study of integrated HHV-6 has discovered that a small number of human ancestors, one from about 24,000 years ago, have been responsible for transmitting ancient strains of the virus ...

Director, Molecular Microbiology Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology and Immunoserology Laboratories Nationwide Children's Hospital Associate Professor - Clinical, College of Medicine, The Ohio ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding itself in our DNA. New work with Iron Age human remains has now traced Human ...

Human herpesvirus 6 is nearly universal today, infecting most people in early childhood. New evidence suggests that this relationship is far older than modern medicine - and in some cases, far more ...