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Viruses can linger in the body and "hide" waiting for immune system to weaken.

This is how people get shingles many decades later after chicken-pox, it's the same virus, just hid in nerve cells and spinal cord.




Some can stay latent for a long time - herpes viruses, retroviruses like HIV, Epstein-Barr, shingles like you said - but most viruses don't, as far as we know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_latency


> Epstein-Barr

Am I the only one who had to look this up, thinking it was a hidden commentary on current political items?




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