Herpes vaccines: are they really worth it?

Herpes vaccines seem like a great idea as vaccination has helped protect us against diseases like polio, German measles (rubella) and whooping cough – right? Well maybe – and then again maybe not, according to researcher Judy Wilyman, a PhD candidate at Perth University, Australia.

Conventional wisdom (or at least that of the pharmaceutical companies who develop vaccines) tells us that by injecting ourselves with a variant of a particular disease, our immune system will be duped into thinking we have the real thing, spring into action and give us the protection we need against that disease.MiddleText

So, for example, injecting us with a dose of something which is akin to whooping cough will fool our immune system into producing antibodies to protect us against whooping cough. That’s what just about every parent is told and why their children are inoculated.

Ms Wilyman concludes: “Pertussis [whooping cough] vaccine is not controlling the incidence of pertussis in the Australian community, nor was it the most significant factor in reducing mortality and morbidity of pertussis disease.”A parallel PhD paper by Arlette Mercae of the University of Tasmania argues that the bigger drug companies are pushing ahead with vaccine research while ignoring scientific papers which argue that maybe this form of immunization doesn’t work.Dr. William Halford is conducting herpes vaccine research into an altered live herpes virus as a vaccine. It would be a preventive vaccine, using the same old idea that if you infect your body with an inactivated or weakened version of the virus before it comes in contact with the real one, it will not become infected.MiddleText

Halford knows his findings are controversial because most current vaccines do not use live viruses but rather piece(s )of protein from the virus, unlike the live virus vaccines of the 70s. like measles, mumps, rubella and polio. Personally I am not convinced that 70s technology is the answer to a herpes pandemic and even less that it is 100% safe but I shall be monitoring his progress. Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) herpevac, another preventive herpes vaccine, failed phase III trials and no further research is expected. ImmunoVEXHSV2, made out of all but four of the approximately 80 HSV-2 proteins, works at both protecting from herpes infection and preventing herpes spreading. Other vaccines, like Vaxfectin® reduce the number of outbreaks by suppressing the spread of herpes.It seems to me that all potential curative herpes vaccines seem to fail at totally halting the spread of herpes. This makes them more like a one shot suppressive therapy than a real herpes cure. These vaccines do seem to protect uninfected partners much more effectively though.

As research into herpes vaccines continues, maybe we can hope for more effective solutions that will look more closely at a herpes cure. Preventing herpes spreading and eliminating herpes symptoms is actually rather easy. It does not require a potentially harmful and very expensive shot. You can beat herpes naturally, in the safety of your home, for a few cents a day. Get my free report on how to cure herpes symptoms now at http://www.herpes-antidote.com

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