There's Something About Space That's Triggering Herpes in Astronauts

Science Alert ^ | 18 Mar 2018 | JON CHRISTIAN

[DUMBGRUNT]

Tests show that dormant herpes viruses reactivate in more than half the astronauts who travel on the Space Shuttle and International Space station, according to new NASA research - a phenomenon the space agency says could pose problems for deep space missions.

..."In keeping with this, we find that astronaut's immune cells - particularly those that normally suppress and eliminate viruses - become less effective during spaceflight and sometimes for up to 60 days after."

[BenLurkin]

Sex in Space?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFzepWiUwU

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hey instead of space herpes it could be MUCH worse:

The Ice Pirates - assembly line castration scene

[Jyotishi]

What happens in space should stay in space.

[Big Red Badger]

I was thinking,
“Space Balls!”

[bramps]

Fortunately their destination wasn’t Uranus.

[sparklite2]

Hey, my comment was among the milder
on this thread. Go nag someone else.

[sparklite2]

Hey, my comment was among the milder
on this thread. Go nag someone else.

[petitfour]

Are we talking chicken pox or shingles?

[Big Red Badger]

Another “Hall Monitor”,

Smokem’ if ya Gottem’

[Equine1952]

I wonder about chicken pox. It’s a virus and reocurrs as shingles. You have the virus in you if you’ve had chicken pox. Generally shingles come on when the immune system is weakened. Have shingles once you won’t want to do it again.

[sparklite2]

Naggers gonna nag.

[HollyB]

It’s a virus. If someone’s had the chickenpox, they could easily get shingles as well. They aren’t going to disqualify someone over having the chickenpox at one time.

[Delta 21]

I will only have to imagine the stench when you crack the airlock.

[rfp1234]

[PetroniusMaximus]

[Mears]

It could be herpes simplex-———genital herpes or cold sores.

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[Mears]

Or it could be genital herpes or cold sores.

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[DoodleBob]

[Tucker39]

I think it’s just that numerous viruses are in our bodies, but are held “dormant” by our immune system. But in weightless space their immune system becomes weakened and those latent viruses jump up. Herpes is a virus . Every one has cancer in their bodies occasionally and it is killed off by the immune system. But sometimes the immune system is weakened or just gets overpowered.

[lee martell]

Speaking of Astronaut with an urge:
Remember the story of NASA Astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak?
Step into this Hot Tub Time Machine and press the red button.
Year 2007; Headline; Diaper-wearing astronaut jailed in love triangle plot to kidnap and murder love rival.