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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by hndamien on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:17PM (#18271676)
If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by uniblih on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:32AM (#18272202)
> If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.

May never happen [0], but one can wish. Although it doesn't have a cure, the treatability, prevalence, and general harmlessness of herpes make it less of an issue than the "curable" STDs. Most doctors don't even bother testing for it [1].

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-hav... [1] https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm

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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by masonic on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:38AM (#18272629) 

  general harmlessness of herpes
Perhaps you missed that HSV is a vector for cancers (e.g Kaposi sarcoma).
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by esf on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:59AM (#18275145)
Kaposi Sarcoma is caused by HHV-8, a completely different virus than HSV-1/2. They are in the herpes virus family, but this is a huge virus group including eg chicken pox (HHV-3) and Epstein Barr virus that causes mono (HHV-4).
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