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I think Prusty demonstrated that HHV 6 is not in that case symbiotic.
Maybe keep them in a vat in a lab somewhere tucked away (like smallpox), truthfully I think almost any vertebrate (all vertebrates have at least one herpes virus that infects them) would do better (much better) if all herpes viruses were eradicated completely. They've been around for 200+ million years and have sub-speciated out in the last tens of millions into the alpha, beta, and gamma variants.
There has always been a part of the population 2-10% that has had mild to severe disease related to these viruses. The nice thing about people living older is we are going to start seeing just how devastating some of these diseases really are.