Sweltering weather is a rarity in Seattle. The city averages only two days a year of temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit and normally doesnt get any hotter than 100. Nights are equally moderate with minimum temperatures dropping below 70 Â°F. Just ten times a year, on average does the daily low remain in the 60s.
A cold sore is a fluid-filled, painful blister that is usually on or around the lips. Other names for a cold sore are fever blister, oral herpes, labial herpes, herpes labialis, and herpes febrilis. Cold sores most often occur on the lips which distinguishes them from the common canker sore which is usually inside the mouth.
Cold sores are icky. And they're insidious. The raw, ugly blisters show up without notice and are unpreventable. Worse yet, once you're infected with the virus that causes them, you're stuck with it for good. But landmark research reported today by microbiologists at Duke University may offer the potential for a cure. By age 40, nearly 90% of adults have been exposed to the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores.