How come no Herpes vaccine?

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Jay Stallworth - 12 Apr 2006 20:02 GMT

Making vaccines from viruses is a technology that's been around for almost
fifty-five years, now, so it would seem to a mature process. How come
there isn't any Herpes vaccine, and has anybody been making steady progress
on it recently?

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Robert - 12 Apr 2006 20:18 GMT

> Making vaccines from viruses is a technology that's been around for almost
> fifty-five years, now, so it would seem to a mature process. How come
> there isn't any Herpes vaccine, and has anybody been making steady progress
> on it recently?

As a generalization, DNA viruses are controlled by the cellular immunity and
RNA viruses by humoral immunity ie antibodies.
Antibody response vaccines are effective but they still have problems with
vaccines for DNA viruses.

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