In a major breakthrough which could help explain complex mechanisms used by the herpes virus to attack the human body scientists have sequenced the virus' genome identifying several hundred previously unknown proteins. The virus can cause severe diseases in new-borns and in persons with weakened immune system and it's estimated that 80% of the world's population is infected by it. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich and the University of California in San Francisco have shown that the genome of this virus contains much more information than previously known according to the study
