1.   Its first symptoms are genital sores, but the sores go away without treatment and patients often do not realize they are infected.

2.   Its initial symptoms, highly infectious open genital sores, often heal on their own.

3.   The virus that killed Kumari is commonly found in both wild and captive African elephants, in which it causes only minor skin problems and genital sores.

4.   Genital herpes, or herpes simplex, is an incurable infection that can cause painful genital sores.

5.   The elephant herpes is similar to a virus that causes cold sores and painful genital sores in humans.

6.   The woman, whose identity was not released, does not have symptoms of the incurable virus that causes pain and genital sores.