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Your article on herpes simplex [July 28], while accurate insofar as the clinical experience of the disease is concerned, presented an overly pessimistic portrayal of its human dimensions. Certainly having herpes is annoying and at times inconvenient; but to suggest that incessant guilt, shame, depression and suicidal feelings are anything more than exceptions -rare exceptions-is to emphasize the exceptions at the expense of the rule...
...viruses after which the disease is named come in some 70 varieties, most of them noninfectious to humans. Those harmful to people cause birth defects, chicken pox and shingles, and mononucleosis (the "kissing disease"). The ones implicated in venereal disease are herpes simplex types 1 and 2. The first type triggers fever blisters, or cold sores, around the mouth: it is also an agent in various eye ailments that can, if untreated, lead to blindness. The second usually shows up in the genital area of both sexes, and sometimes on the thighs and buttocks. Both types can be transmitted between...
...deaths a year. But whether herpes actually causes cancer is a matter of debate. There is no doubt that herpes can be passed on to newborn babies if mothers have an active infection at the time of delivery. Each year several hundred babies are born with herpes simplex; more than half die, and survivors often suffer permanent neurological damage. One precaution being taken by some doctors is to order caesarean deliveries, a less emotionally jarring practice than segregating mother and baby behind doors marked ISOLATION: HERPES. Recalls Rachel, 29, a California nurse who was subjected to such treatment: "I felt...
...opportunity Vickery has no intention of letting pass. Most cities the size of Cambridge make only token planning efforts. Vickery has 50 full-time employees on his staff, and lately most have been at work on an ambitious development program, aimed at the Alewife and Simplex areas and East Cambridge. "We are setting a policy for the city; we are telling businessmen, 'We want you to expand.'" Vickery says. "To know the city is willing to pay for streets, for drains, for curbs--that's a big thing for a company...
...battle just as stiff may be brewing in Cambridgeport, where the Community Development Department is currently surveying all properties to come up with a plan for growth. One neighborhood faction is for development at any cost. "The blight of the Simplex site is encroaching on our homes," James Caragianes says. Another group also wants to see the site used, but preferably by industry. East Cambridge, where massive infusions of federal money have increased incentives for development, is the best example of successful planning in Cambridge, Vickery says...