A recent article in the UK’s Daily Mail includes an all-too-typical “herpes scare” shock headline: “How you could catch HERPES from a sunbed: STI can thrive in tanning booths despite the heat, expert warns” No doubt that will bring many clicks and page views (which is all the media is really interested in) but it […]
A new way of thinking challenges standard notions about what a herpes vaccine should look like. New thinking about vaccine design has helped researchers forge ahead in developing a potential vaccine. Herpes simplex virus infections are an enormous global health problem and there is currently no viable vaccine. For nearly three decades, immunologists’ efforts to […]
A lot of websites claim herpes is a few thousand years old. That’s not when herpes came about; that’s when writing things down came about, so that’s the first time it actually got documented. We’ve had Herpes Simplex much, much longer than that – more than a million and a half years longer for HSV-2… […]
