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Please help docs! where exactly do herpes simplex exist in the body and how does it reproduce?

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Dr. Dennis Higginbotham answered

Specializes in American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Intracellular: The herpes virus lives inside nerve cells. It reproduces by becoming a part of the cells own dna and then using that dna to replicate the virus. It is a lifelong infection because the body's immune system cannot clear the virus from inside the nerve cells.

Answered 11/13/2018

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