We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

And in those miserable, wintry days of the pandemic, I was thankful that I could hide my mouth behind a face mask. I am not alone in feeling there is a stigma around cold sores, despite the fact ...

"Popping them releases a blister-like fluid that contains the same virus and can easily spread to other areas, including someone else's face." Causes of cold sores: The herpes simplex virus type 1 ...

Impetigo is a bacterial infection that affects your skin, causing sores and blisters. It can appear differently depending on the stage of infection and what part of your body it affects.

If you suffer with sore lips, there may be a reason why it's happening - and according to a skin doctor, it might be more ...

causes cold sores. In a similar manner to the chickenpox virus, HSV lives in a nerve with branches to the skin. Small amounts of it are constantly in the skin, even if there is not a visible ...