genital herpes

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Preventive Services Task Force doesn’t recommend routine genital herpes screenings for people without symptoms, in part because false positive rates are so high.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023

The upcoming study is expected to be observer blinded and placebo-controlled, with the patients including 100 healthy volunteers who do not have any current or past history of symptomatic genital herpes infections.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2022

Tests in mice and guinea pigs showed that this vaccine prevented infection with the virus that causes genital herpes.

From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2021

It’s impossible to point to a single moment in this cycle and say, “That’s when genital herpes became stigmatized.”

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019

For genital herpes, drugs such as acyclovir can reduce the number and duration of the episodes of active viral disease during which patients develop viral lesions in their skins cells.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013