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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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