Generally speaking, a virus would remain dormant until its environment changed. In this case it would normally be a stressor that triggered it. Shingles is another example.
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Originally Posted by lurkingforacure
Yes, and what triggers that cold sore? A ton of people have this and they will get a sore, then it will go away, maybe they are good for years, and then boom, there's another outbreak. What is that virus doing all that time in the body? Is is just lying around, choosing not to be active, or is the body working on suppressing it the whole time until something happens and the body is overwhelmed and cannot fight it anymore and then you see the fever blister? Anybody know?
And that's another point: so many people have viruses lurking in their body, and it is not until there is an erruption (AIDS, fever blister, etc.) and the body manifests with physical symptoms that you even know there is this alien in the body. Without any manifestation of physical symptoms, how would one find out their body had been invaded?
And I guess I am really asking these questions because if PD were like herpes, and we could control the virus...well, then we could control PD. Or maybe this is way too simplistic.
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