Just read this story about some virus research
Jstas
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There seems to be some definitive progress at Duke University is combating herpes simplex 1 virus. That stuff that causes cold sores. The researchers at Duke seemed to have found the way the virus goes dormant and gets reawakened to cause an outbreak. What is more important is that clinical tests are showing that they can awaken the virus and then destroy it with anti-biotics at will.
Why is that important? Well, when the virus awakes naturally through the trigger that is used, not all of the virus awakens. Some stays dormant. So the drug therapy treatments kill only the virus that is awake. The dormant stuff stays lodged in nerve cells, pretty impervious to everything including your own immune system.
By using the synthetic trigger to awaken all of the virus, the researchers have been able to use acyclovir to irradicate the virus. Acyclovir is a common drug used to limit outbreaks of herpes of all kinds.
The people at Duke seem to think that they can do this with other strains of herpes simplex, they just need to do the research. This is a big deal because if this ends up working out, it will make a huge dent in herpes infections of all kinds. While there is the social stigma of being unclean that goes along with it, a greater issue is that herpes has been known and show to cause levels of cellular damage that can lead to cancer.
So yeah, pretty interesting stuff.
http://www.livescience.com/health/617092.html
Why is that important? Well, when the virus awakes naturally through the trigger that is used, not all of the virus awakens. Some stays dormant. So the drug therapy treatments kill only the virus that is awake. The dormant stuff stays lodged in nerve cells, pretty impervious to everything including your own immune system.
By using the synthetic trigger to awaken all of the virus, the researchers have been able to use acyclovir to irradicate the virus. Acyclovir is a common drug used to limit outbreaks of herpes of all kinds.
The people at Duke seem to think that they can do this with other strains of herpes simplex, they just need to do the research. This is a big deal because if this ends up working out, it will make a huge dent in herpes infections of all kinds. While there is the social stigma of being unclean that goes along with it, a greater issue is that herpes has been known and show to cause levels of cellular damage that can lead to cancer.
So yeah, pretty interesting stuff.
http://www.livescience.com/health/617092.html
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Good find Jstas. I must admit that is a pretty interesting approach to taking care of a virus.I know just enough to be dangerous, but don't tell my wife, she thinks I'm a genius.
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Good information. I'll forward it along to some people I know that are 'infected.'
Hopefully not any former girl friends.:p
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As the ad for genital herpes says on tv, 70% caught it when no symptoms were present.
So, what the hell were the other 30% thinking? Gosh, this is so good,
let's share it?"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
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sucks2beme wrote: »As the ad for genital herpes says on tv, 70% caught it when no symptoms were present.
So, what the hell were the other 30% thinking? Gosh, this is so good,
let's share it?
Have you seen the Valtrex commercials? They make it seem like it's FUN to have the gift that keeps on givin'! I mean you get to ride bikes, fly kites, go on picnics in the park with hot women, water ski, ride motor cycles, jet skis and even horses! Horses!
I mean geez! Where the hell have I been?Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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dont' give your horse herpes...
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mhardy6647 wrote: »dont' give your horse herpes...
That was frikken funny.....
