mo4ch:>Space herpes? Long missions risk activating virus, NASA warns astronauts | Mo4ch News

In space, no one can hear your herpes flare up. NASA has warned its astronauts and International Space Station crews that long spaceflight missions risk triggering herpes eruptions as their immune systems are suppressed.Herpes indicators soar in spaceflight conditions, with sleep deprivation and stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol bombarding the body from within as external forces like microgravity and cosmic radiation assail it from without, NASA researchers have found.Also on rt.com'We always admired your tech!’ Elon Musk & Roscosmos chief trade praise over CrewDragon successMore than half of astronauts on short-term shuttle flights, and nearly two-thirds of those on long missions to the ISS, shed the herpes virus in their bodily fluids, according to a NASA study published in Frontiers in Microbiology. It’s not a special intergalactic strain of the virus – though that would make a great plot for a science fiction epic – but herpes strains dormant within the astronau…