#viral latency

[didanawisgi]

High number of SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections uncovered through genetic analysis of samples from a large community-based surveillance study

[homeostasister]

When the author of the Necronomicon wrote “that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die” he was actually talking about shingles.

[pozmagazine]

On ‘The Cure’: HIV Goes Latent by Design

Attempts to cure HIV have been seriously frustrated by the fact that the virus enters a latent, non-replicating state in certain immune cells, basically becoming invisible to anti-HIV meds. Recent research also shows that HIV has the ability to stop or start replication on its own, without the help of its infected cell.