With the virus at least dormant, we're free from old Moses!

Its symptoms include pain and a blistering rash that occurs along the nerves that contain dormant virus.

It can be just as dormant as a dormant virus, and certainly can't survive without a host, but it can become a living human being.

Some of the problems are a weakened immune system and the activation of dormant viruses in the body.

Ten years ago a bad case of flu triggered a dormant virus that accelerated his macular degeneration, leaving him almost blind.

Why, then, is there a racist core still hidden within me like some dormant virus waiting to reassert itself?

"It's really a recurrence of a dormant virus."

Some of our major unanswered questions still revolve around how Roger contracted the dormant virus and who else might be carrying it.

A recent study (2009) showed that the protein VP16 plays a key role in reactivation of the dormant virus.

"We don't know what causes reactivation of the dormant virus," Moore says.