Thursday, December 15, 2005

New Vaccine Prevents Herpes In Women

....A new vaccine prevented genital herpes in more than 70 percent of women who were previously uninfected with either the oral or genital herpes virus, researchers announced Wednesday....

...People have been trying to make a herpes vaccine without success for more than 60 years," said lead author of the paper, Lawrence Stanberry, who is chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. "This is the first one to prove effective....

...The paper's authors said it was not clear why the vaccine is effective in women but not men. They said it might have to do with how the virus enters the body, which is thought to be different for men and women...

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