In fact, the virus does not go anywhere. It looks like a dumpling in a saucepan.
Most of us will sooner or later become infected with herpes simplex. Immunity usually cannot completely eliminate the virus, and it settles in our nerve nodes. Either in the head or closer to the sacrum. There immunity can do nothing to him.
If the immune system weakens or, for some unknown reason, the virus suddenly decides to get out of the nerve nodes and begins to multiply on our lips or elsewhere. It sounds unpleasant. But interesting.
Well, that is, purely from a theoretical point of view, we know that herpes is a virus that cannot swim or crawl. It's just a piece of DNA wrapped in a protein wrapper. So how does it get from deeply hidden nerve nodes into the skin?
In fact, the virus, as it was in the nerve cells, remained there formally.
The fact is that our nerve cells have very, very long processes. Sometimes they are a meter long. What we call nerves is a complex bundle of nerve cell processes.
The process of a nerve cell is part of the nerve cell itself. Something like communicating vessels. Well, like an hourglass. From one half of the hourglass, something is poured into the other half. But the system is closed.
And inside the processes, some kind of intracellular affairs are constantly taking place. Some kind of movement.
There, in these processes, there is a whole system, similar to a railway with rails and small trains that go somewhere along the nerve.
It is clear that everything inside our cells boils and boils and moves. Viruses also flop there like boiled dumplings in a saucepan with boiling water.
The virus does not know how to crawl or swim, but if such a dumpling gets on a train running along the spines, then it will rush to the periphery with it. Into the skin. And already there it will begin to multiply. Maybe he will make bubbles on his lips, or maybe he will just quietly stamp himself. There are different options.
Roughly the same scheme works with the rabies virus. The mad dog bites our finger, and the virus goes on the road on the same passing locomotive. But only in the opposite direction - towards our brains.
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