Citations:space herpes

English citations of space herpes

((science fiction) disease found in space):

• 1998, Glenn Gaslin, Rick Porter, The Complete, Cross-referenced Guide to the Baby Buster Generation's Collective Unconscious, The Ice Pirates, page 99:

  The scenes we liked best involved the castration conveyor belt and space herpes.

• 2014 July 1, Ellie Decker, JD Jordan, “The 17 Motliest Crews in the Galaxy”, in Paste‎^[1], Jason’s Crew in Ice Pirates:

  A cult sci-fi comedy and a Star Wars spoof, the cast is what makes this motley crew so endearing […] Oh, and space herpes—the first of two Alien homages to plague the crews on this list.

((astronautics, pathology, slang) Re-activated herpesvirus infections due to the conditions of spaceflight.):

• 2019 March 18, Alexander J Martin, “NASA issues space herpes warning as virus reactivates in astronauts”, in Sky News:

  NASA has issued a warning about space herpes after a study found the virus was reactivating in crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.

• 2019 March 18, Natalie O'Neill, “NASA astronauts are under attack in space — by herpes”, in New York Post‎^[2]:

  NASA is fighting a war in orbit — against space herpes. ¶ Astronauts aboard the International Space Station and other missions have been plagued by a resurgence in the often-dormant virus because of the stress of space travel, according to a study by NASA researchers published in this month’s issue of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.

• 2019 March 22, Liam Doyle, “NASA space herpes warning: What diseases can astronauts catch? How do they spread?”, in Express:

  NASA has issued a warning for ‘space herpes’ as astronauts have seen the disease ’reactivate’ in their bodies as their immune systems are repressed by spaceflight.