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."

[sparklite2]

Put two guys in a spacecraft to two
months, and they both come back with herpes.
Heh. It’s puzzling...

[Spruce]

Or maybe they’re all just banging each other up there?

[StolarStorm]

There is a scene in an old sci fi movie called “Ice Pirates” that comes to mind.

[Trumpet 1]

Another reason to not go to Mars.

[dinodino]

Please go back to your all-you-can-eat diet of lead paint, and kindly refrain from posting.

[Scrambler Bob]

There wasn’t enough ‘space’.

[real saxophonist]

hairpiece

[mosaicwolf]

Maybe the human gnome wasn’t designed for space travel. Just a thought.

[Noamie]

Wait. Seriously. You can have herpes and still qualify as an astronaut?

[Fungi]

HaHa. Well said.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-me2inj1nNw

[CJ Wolf]

Um this should not perplex the herpes simplex.

[Captain Compassion]

Note to self: Never date an astronaut.

[kingu]

I suspect that it’s just the recycled air giving exposure more often to the herpes virus (and let’s be honest, as much as they try to keep everything pretty & clean up there, there’s not really much of a way to do it.)

[max americana]

there was a book written by the scientist woman who was rescued in Antartica at the SCIENCE DOME (6 months isolated contract) via military US plane and she was quite famous back then.

The most interesting thing in the book other than the rescue?

All the scientists were banging each other, even those who were married. 6 months in isolation studying the damn cold weather: what are you gonna do for “entertainment”?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Can they say no, to an AIDS carrier?

And if the herpes virus emerges, what of AIDS?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Was just thinking the same thing!!!!

[calico_thompson]

Perhaps just us were designed to inhabit this very limited biosphere in this tiny address of the Universe.?

[proud American in Canada]

yeah, like sex