Space-Herpes, just what the world needs now
/Space Travel Causes Viruses To 'Resurrect' Inside Astronauts
“It seems space travel has a very unexpected side effect – herpes.
NASA scientists discovered that dormant herpes viruses lurking inside more than half of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle "resurrected" after time spent in space. The results have been published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Fortunately, very few went on to develop symptoms. However, the study authors warn, virus reactivation rates appear to increase as time goes on – an observation that could pose a major challenge to missions to Mars and further into deep space. “
