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According to a press release, a new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, demonstrated that shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is associated with an almost 30% higher long-term risk of a major cardiovascular event such a stroke or heart attack. Their results …
Enveloped viruses such as Herpes, the flu virus, and chickenpox which have an outer membranous envelope were believed to be not very stable and only to be infectious through direct, speedy aerosol transmission. The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and The Institut fur Virologie of the Freie Universitat Berlin have conducted a study …