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...Most of the time, a woman's body can deal with an HPV infection without any trouble--which is a good thing since a majority of sexually active women are believed to develop one at some point in their lives. In a small percentage of cases, the virus persists in the body, and in an even smaller percentage of those cases, the infection triggers a complex process that leads to cervical cancer...
...whether they will pay for the shots - no easy task since the vaccine is given three times over six months and costs $360. In order to be most effective, say doctors, Gardasil should be given to young girls before they become sexually active and are potentially exposed to the virus. The FDA approved the vaccine for girls and women ranging in age from nine...
...curing this disease,” Umetsu says, “but that’s just speculation.”SORE WINNERSIn December, HMS researchers at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research found they could harness RNA interference (RNAi), an important gene-expression mechanism, to suppress the virus that causes genital herpes.Judy Lieberman, David Knipe, and Deborah Palliser discovered that a 22-base-long strand of RNA, when absorbed by genital cells in mice, can destroy the messenger RNA responsible for expressing the HSV-2 virus, which is carried by over 20 percent of American adults.Lieberman says she hopes...
...This is the most significant development so far in terms of public health." PETER CORDINGLEY, World Health Organization spokesperson, on a cluster of human bird-flu cases in a family in north Sumatra, Indonesia, which officials believe may represent the first time the H5N1 virus has passed between multiple human hosts...
...Testing of drug treatment for the prevention of transmission of the AIDS virus from mothers to their babies...