Interesting research just published about the history and origins of Human Herpes Simplex Viruses 1 and 2. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine examined the genetic evolution of the HSV-1 and HSV-2 viruses. They determined that HSV-1 has been around much longer of the two, infecting humanoids as long as 6 million years ago, and HSV-2 apparently crossed from primates about 1.6 million years ago.
The full article and findings can be read in the June 10, 2014 issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Read the full article here: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/06/04/molbev.msu185.short?rss=1
