A multi-center study of 200 infants with status epilepticus is currently in process to study of the role of primary HHV-6 & 7 infections in children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE). Leon Epstein reported at the 2005 Child Neurology Society conference that this group found 33% of 63 infants examined showed evidence of HHV-6 infection while 7.9% of 63 had

HHV-7 primary infection. The questions that remain to be answered are: Does the virus persist in some of these cases and increase the chances of subsequent hippocampal damage, temporal lobe seizures and epilepsy? Would these children benefit from antiviral treatment?