Sunday, October, 25, 2009
Herpes Vaccine
April 22, 2009
A student has heard that a vaccine for herpes will be available in 2009 or 2010 and wonders if this will ever be a reality. A pre-medicine reporter says that a vaccine becoming available in the next two years is unlikely. She also gives information about herpes vaccines that are available, and she explains how a vaccine would have to work to cure people already infected with the herpes virus.
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Expert & Community Posts
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch
,
Health Expert
...discovered, most people with pneumonia died. The shingles (Herpes zoster) vaccine is new. The...
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By Jerry Kennard
,
Health Expert
...in Sharepost about stigma in relation to genital herpes. Public health messages frequently use...
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By Dr. Bill Quick
,
Health Expert
...("HPV") for women through age 26 Varicella (chickenpox) Herpes zoster (shingles) Measles, mumps,...
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Health Guide
...nearly two-thirds of the population. If they meet these criteria, test subjects will receive either the
herpes vaccine or a hepatitis A
vaccine (as a control). Participants will receive three...
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...
Herpes Alliancewww.got
herpes.com --
Herpes support sitewww.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/stds/herpevac -- Herpevac (
herpes vaccine) clinical trial information
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... Shingles Prevention Avoid contact with the skin lesions of persons with known
herpes zoster infection (shingles or chickenpox) if you have never had chickenpox or the...
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...States and Canada. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either three doses of the experimental
herpes vaccine or an investigational hepatitis A
vaccine. The women will be observed for 20...
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...adults with intact immune systems who are age 60 years and older receive this
vaccine to help prevent
herpes zoster (shingles). This includes adults who have previously had a shingles attack....
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