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...forms of venereal disease in the U.S., one of the most troublesome is that caused by the common herpes simplex virus. Comprising about 13% of VD cases, the contagious infection produces painful sores in the genital area and discomfort while urinating. It is particularly dangerous in women: during delivery it can be transmitted to the infant; it is also linked to cervical cancer. For years, doctors have searched for a cure. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have achieved that goal. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Herbert Blough and Robert Giuntoli report testing...
Matthews recalls that his father originally used a less accurate methods known as the "modified simplex method," which is a linear programming technique, because he lacked access to a computer...
...drug checks herpes simplex encephalitis...
Exceedingly few people develop herpes simplex encephalitis, a brain inflammation produced by the same virus that causes, among other things, the common cold sore. Those who do are unfortunate indeed. Fever, recurrent headaches, personality changes and seizures often afflict the victim, though the disease can be definitely confirmed only by brain biopsy. Once it starts, moreover, it steadily gets worse. People with herpes encephalitis almost invariably become comatose, then die; survivors nearly always suffer brain damage, frequently so severe as to require institutionalization...
Despite its success in fighting many of mankind's worst maladies, medical science has made virtually no headway against a family of viruses that infects about 80% of the world's adult population: herpes simplex type I, which causes cold sores and herpes keratitis (an eye infection responsible for 18,000 cases of blindness in the U.S. every year) and type II, which produces sores in the genital area, and is under suspicion as one cause of cervical cancer...