Herpes Cold Sores Date Back 5,000 Years to the Beginning of ‘romantic Kissing’

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Unsightly facial cold sores date back 5,000 years, a new study examining the herpes virus reveals. It’s during this time that Bronze Age men and women began to engage in romantic and sexual kissing, according to researchers. The infection’s prehistoric roots reportedly go back to when the cultural practice of romantic…

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