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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
And once again: the immune system reacts to foreign DNA/RNA too (e.g. Herpes which has no protein coating).
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And once you have herpes, you have it for life. If your body were mounting a constant immune response against that foreign DNA it would be like having lupus - a persistent load on your immune system that would eventually result in death.
Also, not sure where you are getting your info, but the herpes capsid is composed of proteins, and the nuclear envelope (the coat for the capsid outside of the host cell) is a lipid bilayer embedded with glycoproteins like that found in eukaryotic cells. As a virus, it is capable of changing those proteins in order to evade the immune response. When a person with herpes is shedding new enveloped viral cells is when you see the immunological response (ie the blister).