This post is dedicated to the people without power.  ;-)

I was flying around the country the last week or so and during a lull
(ask me in which airport I found a Swiss Army knife under a security
search table) I took a peek through American Airlines's "Sky Mall"
catalogue magazine, and lo, what should I chance upon but an item
touted as "A REVOLUTIONARY DEVICE FOR TREATING SKIN INFECTIONS"
immediately further puffed with "The DermaSeptic is highly effective
against herpes, cold sores, fever blisters, acne and even warts."

http://www.skymall.com/webapp/skystore?process=prodDisplay&action=&pid=101906194

Woo hoo.  Our worries are ended.

And only $99.95.

But wait!  There's more!

It is claimed that the device works by delivering "natural
anti-microbial silver ions directly to the infected tissue".

Silver allegedly has anti-viral properties, an idea that I believe we
have been treated to here in the past, though I haven't checked on
that, nor on any of our responses or conclusions.

Well, indeed, without knowing much I was still a little skeptical, and
so today I punched in a couple key words and took a ride on the world
wide web.

I found the DermaSeptic website and it is not particularly impressive,
especially the link labelled "Scientific Testing".  I would be
interested in getting a real scientist to comment on that crap.
Here's the home page:

http://www.dermaseptic.com/

The rest of the site is distinctly lacking in any hard information and
may even be in abject error on one or two things about herpes.

I was just about ready to compose a scathing post for the group when I
found another reference to the device at none other than "herpes.org".

They actually list it as a promising tool.  True, they stick it in
just ahead of Olive Leaf Extract and Red Marine Algae and probably
have a disclaimer somewhere about any recommendations, but they do
seem to lend some legitimacy to the thing.  Here's *their* address:

http://www.herpes.org/herpesinfo/management.shtml

DermaSeptic is listed sixth.

So, like, is herpes.org themselves legit? Me, I don't know nuttin'.

Does silver have properties that proper delivery makes efficacious?

How many electrodes does one go through in a year?

Why does DermaSeptic *look* like the epitome of a fly-by-night
bidness?

Have any of our faithful readers tried the thing?  They do claim to
have a money back guarantee...  I'd be interested to hear if that's
true.

And while I think I should have more questions, somehow I feel
depleted.  Perhaps I need a new lithium ion batt'ry.

Take care, buy with caution.

Mike