How to Use herpesvirus in a Sentence

herpesvirus

noun
  • Nearly all of us contract a herpesvirus during our lives, via nonsexual spread.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Chickens, for example, routinely get vaccinated for Marek’s disease, which caused by a herpesvirus.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The herpesvirus in question can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey, including owls that become infected by eating pigeons, the society said.
    — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • These diseases, which included adenovirus, herpesvirus, and papillomavirus, were preserved in the bones of Neanderthals.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The other flavor has tails and primarily infects bacteria and archaea but also contains the herpesvirus family, which infects animals.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The necropsy, conducted by Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists, showed that the Eurasian eagle owl contracted herpesvirus from a healthy pigeon.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Because of an outbreak of equine herpesvirus, a contagious equine virus that can cause neurological and respiratory diseases, the decision was made to not have any horses or other equines in the parade.
    — Tracy Trobridge, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Urogenital carcinoma, present in a quarter of sea lions necropsied in California, is definitively caused by a herpesvirus.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • Increasing evidence has also linked the Epstein-Barr virus — a member of the same herpesvirus family — to multiple sclerosis.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
  • To investigate that hypothesis, Edgar and her collaborators exposed mice to herpesvirus at different times.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2019
  • Eye infections are a leading cause, particularly conjunctivitis, often linked to viruses like feline herpesvirus, or bacteria and fungi.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This is likely due to HSV’s dormancy and its ability to evade the immune system, more advanced than other herpesvirus infection, such as chickenpox and shingles, against which vaccines exist.
    — Dr. Tal Patalon, Md, Llb, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Its work on de-extincting woolly mammoths has, somewhat indirectly, led to the development of a vaccine against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, the number-one killer of young elephants in captivity and a significant threat to species in the wild.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • Low levels of human adenovirus and human herpesvirus 6 were found in the liver in most cases, which the authors similarly speculate enabled AAV2 replication and liver damage.
    — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • After the fall, the bird was found to have had severe pigeon herpesvirus and four different anticoagulant rodenticides, or rat poison, within his system, according to the postmortem testing results released by the Central Park Zoo on March 25.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024

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