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Article: EVER WONDER?: Why do I always get a cold sore when I go skiing?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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A cold sore is actually an outbreak of the herpes simplex virus.
The first time you got a cold sore, it was from direct skin contact
(e.g.- kissing) with someone who either had a cold sore or had
unsuspected shedding of herpes virus particles. While that original
cold sore went away, the herpes simplex virus particles never really
left you; rather, they wandered down the path of a sensory nerve
root to make a home within that nerve. There, the virus will remain
dormant unless something triggers it to return to the skin's surface
and stage a recurrence. Factors known to ...
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