All right, welcome to episode 627 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

In today's podcast, we're going to be continuing the series on herpes.

This probably will be the concluding part of this series.

Again, if you remember from the first one, episode 626, we talked about a lot of things

and made lots of very, very good integration. So I'd encourage you if you miss that, go back and listen to episode 626, we talked about a lot of things and made lots of very, very good integration.

So I'd encourage you if you miss that, go back and listen to episode 626, right?

So we talked about HSV-1 at length in that podcast.

Remember HSV-2, that's the one that, you know, herpes simplex virus 2.

That's the one you get through, you know, sexual contact perinadally, right? So vertical transmission from mom to the baby, that's usually going to be HSV-2, right? So neonatal herpes, herpes, genitalis, that's going to be HSV-2 a lot of the time on your exams, right? And I'm going to make some parallels with HSV-1, right? So remember HSV-1,

we said that most times is going to be latent in the trigeminal ganglion, right? But for HSV-2, it's different. It's going to be latent in the sacral ganglin, in the sacral ganglin, right? And one thing that's kind of weird, though, that I think is very high yield to know for your exams is that

unlike HSV-1 that typically tends to cause more of an encephalitis HSV-2 tends to cause more

of a meningitis, okay, HSV-1 tends to cause more of an encephalitis, it infects the brain

tissue itself, the brain parenkama, but HSV-2 tends to cause more of a meningitis

picture, right? That's very, very important to keep at the back of your mind for exams, right?

But really, many of the things I said about HSV-1 typically apply to HSV-2. All right, so let's

keep going. How about HHV-3? Human herpes virus number three. Well,'s going to be Varycella, right? Zoster virus, right? And remember, varicela is pretty high-yield to know, right? That it can cause chickenpox, it can cause shingles, right? It can cause pneumonia, right? Especially in people that are immunocompromised, right? People that are immunocomprompromised. And one thing I want to be very careful about with Varycella is, hey, be careful of touching the fluid

from the person's vesicles. If not, you can get in trouble. You can get in trouble, right? You can

get in trouble either by touching the fluid from the vesicles or being in contact with their respiratory secretions.

Because again, remember what I said, varicella can absolutely positively cause pneumonia, right?

Especially on the USMLA exams, right?

Now, where does this stay latent?

Again, we said HHV1 is going to be in the trigeminal ganglion.

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