Innateimmunity is the defence against infection that babies are born with, as opposed to adaptive immunity which is acquired as people develop antibodies through their exposure to disease-causing agents.
HSE, however, were resistant to plenty of disease-causing agents other than the H. simplex virus, suggesting that innateimmunity could be specific, too.
Whereas adaptive immunity is thought to be a response to specific bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, innateimmunity has always been seen as the body's general response to all threats of disease.