No place to hide for herpes virus

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)

They say the difference between herpes and love is that herpes lasts forever. But new research hints at a way to chase the cold sore virus from its hiding place and get rid of it for good.

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Herpes/HIV Correlation Wrong

jerry submitted, created time 5 months 1 day (www.time.com)

Doctors have long suspected that people with herpes are more likely to catch HIV. So they thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person's HIV risk. But a new study that tested this strategy found the assumption may have been wrong.

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Study: Treating herpes doesn't prevent HIV

kavin submitted, created time 5 months 2 days (hosted.ap.org)

Doctors have long suspected that people with herpes are more likely to catch HIV. So they thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person's HIV risk. But a new study that tested this strategy found the assumption may have been wrong.

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Disappointing news in fight against HIV

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.kansascity.com)

A once-promising experiment to see if treating genital herpes with a common drug could dramatically reduce susceptibility to HIV infection has found no protection whatsoever.

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The Good Thing About Herpes

daphne submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.livescience.com)

The herpes family of viruses can have a surprising upside--it can protect against the bubonic plague and other bacterial contagions, at least in mice.

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Treat herpes, treat HIV?

seanangel submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)

'Drugs that fight genital herpes also significantly reduce levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in patients infected with both viruses, a new study finds. Most HIV-positive patients also carry the herpes simplex virus, so anti-herpes drugs might help to restrict the spread of HIV.'

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