-
100 AD Greek doctor Herodotus gave the first reliable and detailed description of the sores caused by the HSV virus. Herodotus gave the virus its name.
http://www.livingsphere.com/herpes-in-the-roman-period-a-time-of-discovery/ -
In AD14 King Tiberius attempted to stop the spread of Herpes by banning kissing.
http://www.livingsphere.com/herpes-in-the-roman-period-a-time-of-discovery/ -
In AD 30 Aulus Cornleius Celsus was the first to take note of these sores, and write down what they actually look like, and take a note of them.
http://www.livingsphere.com/herpes-in-the-roman-period-a-time-of-discovery/ -
With HSV spreading around, even poets recognized the signs and symptoms of what would become "Herpes". In the 1500's, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he talks about HSV. "O'er ladies lips, who straight on kisses dream, which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are."
http://www.fenvir.com/hsv-herpes-history -
The French physician, Astruc first identified Herpes as a genital infection in 1736.
http://www.fenvir.com/hsv-herpes-history -
Intimate human- to human transmission was discovered as the cause of Herpes.
-
In 1906, it was named "Herpes Simplex" with different strains such as "Herpes Labialis", and "Herpes Progentalis". As this certain time though, they believed that oral blisters also caused genital ones.
http://www.fenvir.com/hsv-herpes-history -
Lowenstein comfirmed the Herpes Virus infectious,and contagious.
-
Ernest Goodpasture proved that herpes weren't spread through blood, but spread through skin to skin contact affecting the skin and the central nervous system.
-
In 1939 Frank LacFarlane Burnet developed the theory that HSV lies dormant and reappears throughout and infected persons life.
-
-
In 1978 Gertrude Elion developed an antiviral called Acyclovir which was tested on infected humans
-
Around the 1980's oral treatment for Herpes Simplex Virus was released to help with oral outbreaks
-
The scientific community acknowedged Herpes as a sexually transmitted disease.
http://www.fenvir.com/hsv-herpes-history
