Article: EVER WONDER?: Why do I always get a cold sore when I go skiing?

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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