Radical Vaccine Design Effective Against Herpes Viruses

[Bob]

This article is very interesting... Promising new vaccine in early stages of development... Not yet sure of implications for those already infected...

Radical Vaccine Design Effective Against Herpes Viruses
March 7, 2015
HHMI News
http://www.hhmi.org/news/radical-va...e-against-herpes-viruses#.VP7adyvKvEM.twitter

Herpes simplex virus infections are an enormous global health problem and there is currently no viable vaccine. For nearly three decades, immunologists’ efforts to develop a herpes vaccine have centered on exploiting a single protein found on the virus’s outer surface that is known to elicit robust production of antibodies. Breaking from this approach, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have created a genetic mutant lacking that protein. The result is a powerfully effective vaccine against herpes viruses.

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