30 - Teen Sex Quiz - True or False: There is no cure  for genital herpes.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/quiz/teensex_quiz/

30 - Monasteries Fill With Those Who Seek Respite From Stress  (Stress is implicated as a cause for herpes outbreaks.)
http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/lit/21.html

30 - QUIDEL CORP filed 10-K (Annual Report)  06/29/1999. (POCkit Tests)
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS ("HSV") 1 AND 2  tests,  being developed under a fully-funded collaboration with Glaxo Wellcome, will detect the presence of the HSV antibody in the blood, as well as the presence of the antigen directly from the genital or oral lesion. The HSV diagnostic tests are designed to be used in conjunction with a Glaxo Wellcome therapeutic product and applications for FDA clearance for both the antibody and antigen tests are expected to be filed in 2000.
(running late, maybe? last quarterly report projected late 1999) http://www.quidel.com - for SEC info search: http://tenkwizard.com

29 - Iceland scientists find coconut oil compound destroys HSV
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_380000/380926.stm

29 - Update - Herpes Drug Assistance
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/assistance.html

28 - HIV & HSV share most of the same research facilities and researchers. HSV is implicated as facilitating HIV infection. The HIV sites offer more current information on HSV  than all HSV sites combined. These  are sample sites  of what a concerned community can achieve:
http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/Advocacy/8.html

28 - In cyberspace, pharmacies are shipping pills across state lines without  the requisite licenses. Doctors are writing prescriptions for people  they have never met, a practice the American Medical Association says is unethical, but not illegal.
http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/nation/docs/drugs27.htm

28 - The more the merrier, barely a principle now.
http://www.skinful.com/erotica/herpes.htm

28 - Ring around the ....
Friends of PWH (People With Herpes) -  This group is for people, and we try to keep the scope limited to individuals, HELP groups, and Friends groups. It is not for the dissemination of homeopathic remedies, and has very few medical links on it at all.
http://www.dazzled.com/redmartian/hfriends/

27 - National HIV Testing Day is Sunday, June 27.
National HIV Testing Day   was created by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)  to educate the public about HIV counseling and testing.
http://www.hivtest.org/testday/index.html
(National HSV Testing Day is being sponsored by  Procrastinators' Club of America, website to be announced)
 

24 - Herpes Burns - Stills from the Movie
During the mid-90s a new wave of public service announcements took to the American television airwaves. Geared for a younger audience -- aware of AIDS but unconcerned about other sexually transmitted diseases.
"What it all boils down to," says  the director, "no pun intended, is if you want to change how people think about herpes, you should change it's name. The Burning Loins Disease is scary. Herpes is not. Until then, health campaigns are all a joke. Like this one. But the statistics resonate: one in six Americans has the disease.  That's terrifying." (Very large file 2.5 mb, might not work with AOL)
http://www.newvenue.com/archives/feature05/index.html

24 - Good Bye Dan Quayle!
I have no use for a politician whose position is that herpes stems from the rejection of traditional sexual morality.
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990624/V000290-062499-idx.html

24- The STD HomePage - down to earth/gutterspeak herpes info for teens
a reminder that internet freedom needs to be protected on all levels
http://www.grin.net/~sycamore/std/index.html

23 - Current HerpesVirus Weekly Articles
Receptor Discovered that Allows HSV and Animal Herpesviruses Into Human Cells
Mathematical Model Predicts Emergence of Drug Resistant Genital Herpes
Drugs Can Prevent Spread of Genital Herpes
http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/tech/34.html

23 - PubMed - Spain's Herpes incidence less than 6%
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10375265&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b

23 - PubMed -Sandalwood oil  inhibits HSV1 & 2 replication
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10374251&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b

23 - Vaccines - Just found Dept.
... a U.S. patent covering the SIGA Pharmaceuticals vaccine delivery technology has been granted to The Rockefeller University
The patent covers the delivery and expression of proteins on gram-positive bacteria. The company's vaccine delivery technology is designed to
activate the immune system at the body's mucosal surfaces -- the mouth, the nose, the lungs and the gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts -- in
order to prevent infection at the earliest possible stage. .. SIGA is using this technology in the development of vaccines for herpes simplex virus type II...
http://unisci.com/stories/0813982.htm

22 - Many lesbians avoid doctors for fear of a backlash from judgmental  practitioners.
With scant research to date, new studies underscore the need to track HIV, cancer and other trends in this population.  .........."If you don't acknowledge somebody as a lesbian, you aren't going to ask any questions about . . . high-risk behavior," Knox  says. Doctors believe it's hard to transmit gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV from woman to woman but easy to spread herpes and the human papillomavirus that causes genital warts.
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/HEALTH/lat_gay990621.htm

22 - Coming Soon - Omaha HELP
http://hometown.aol.com/yoshi2me/myhomepage/index.html

22 - Slowwwwly converting all news pages to racoon's faster loading format. Latest updates:
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/jokes.html
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/sites.html

21 - A greenish Pelt: Genital Herpes Anagrams:
               The large penis.
                    A serene plight.
                    Hate leper sign.
                    Help greet a sin.
                    Gather in sleep. [they only come out at night...]
                    Spangle it here.
                    Sing! Heal peter! [music therapy? note slang: peter=penis]
                    He sting a leper.
                    She giant leper.
                    Seething pearl.
                    Herpes A? Tingle.
                    [and by the way: Genital=A tingle]
                    A greenish pelt.
                    A pee length, sir. [doesn't seem to mean anything, but sounds good] Shine large pet.
                    Heal tense grip.
                    Heal pee string.
                    His gentle rape.
                    Gentile phrase.  [?]
http://x39.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=489971747&CONTEXT=929927400.391381075&hitnum=82

21 - The Health Advice Company
Revisited the site, and after panning it when first found, it's now a good comprehensive herpes site, unfortunately, they seem to be very slow in signing up more herpes doctors.
http://www.advicecenter.com/index.html

19 - First Antopia & Bart's open a Chat Room, then Antopia's owner opens another Chat Room on Excite,
Judging by a cursory check of attendance at  available chats,  the ratio of chat rooms to chatters will soon reach less than  1:1
http://www.antopia.com/herpes/chat/chat.htm
http://comm.excite.com/comm/area/pw/welcome/main.asp?cid=.unszg7Sej0L&aid=22&auth=
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/chats.html - updated

19 - Ribi merges with Covixa Corp.
Ribi's vaccine adjuvant MPL is being used in the SmithKline herpes vaccine trials.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990610/wa_corixa__1.html (thanks  gmmd)

18 - Effective 18 June, Racoon.com - The Herpes Home Page,  will be hosting The Herpes News.
http://www.racoon.com/herpes/
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/news.html

17 - Herpes Drugs are getting easier to price shop and order over the Internet.
Here are 2 samples:
http://www10.drugstore.com/Default.asp
http://www.soma.com/

17 - Dr Skinner of Herpes Vaccine Fame now hyping AIDS cure within 2-3  years.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990610/hiv_vac_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990616/hiv_vac_ru_1.html

17- Weekly free subscription Immunization Newsbriefs is a service of the Vaccine Initiative, a special project of the Infectious Diseases Society of America . (Great for Vaccine Techies)
http://www.infoinc.com/imnews2/

16 - I counsel my clients to use condoms until they come to genuine mutual trust about monogamy (if that's what they both ultimately desire). They can then get tested for all the reproductive tract infections (HIV,  chlamydia, human papilloma virus, herpes,  gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomonas) and proceed with their sexual relationship without condoms.
http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/06/09/STYLE12026.dtl

16 - Note: I converted to Netscape 4.6 a few weeks ago, and experienced numerous bugs. An unpublicized version 4.61 is now available which seems to have fixed the bugs I was experiencing.

16 - Interview with Dr. Stephen Sacks, author of "The Truth about Herpes", President of Viridae Clinical Sciences and the Viridae Herpes Website - http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/lit/17.html

14 - Herpes Vaccines -
http://www.racoon.com/theherpesnews/vaccines.html
Glaxo/Cantab Herpes Vaccine By July Glaxo should be entering  Phase 2 trials of its herpes vaccine.  Things must be going fairly well becausesatisfactory completion of the earlier trials will generate a $40 million milestone payment from Glaxo to Cantab for useof its DISC adjuvant.  DISC HSV is a genetically disabled live herpes simplex virus (HSV). By design, DISC HSV mayinfect cells and stimulate a broad and powerful response to the disease, but through the precise removal of a singlegene necessary for virus replication, it is rendered incapable of further  spread. Although more information on thevaccine wll be published later this year, Glaxo does not foresee completion of trials until at least  2002
http://www.homestead.com/HerpesNews/GlaxoVaccine.html
Simplirix - SmithKline Beecham must be feeling pretty good about the progress of their herpes vaccine, they've actually published the name for this Phase 3 vaccine, although already trademarked in 1997.
http://www.sb.com/annualreport/or_prpl5.htm

12 - HerpesVirusesWeekly seems to be back in business
Summary: A comparison study found that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was significantly more sensitive in detecting the presence of herpes simplex virus, the cause of genital herpes, than either enzyme immunoassay (EIA), or the current gold standard, cell culture.
Summary: Patients with chronic sexually transmitted infections may benefit from educational computer programs about their disease(s) viewed while visiting the physician's office.
http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/lit/16.html

12- An effective vaccine for genital herpes has been difficult to achieve because of the limited efficacy of subunit vaccines and the safety concerns about live viruses. ...To increase the level of safety and to prove that replication was not needed for immunization, we constructed a mutant herpes simplex virus 2 strain containing two deletion mutations, each of which eliminated viral replication. The double-mutant virus induces protective immunity that can reduce acute viral shedding and latent infection in a mouse genital model. (thanks,  gmmd@hotbot.com)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10359827&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b

11- The children of mothers who showed evidence of an infection-either feline toxoplasmosis or HSV2-during pregnancy were four to seven times more likely to develop schizophrenia than those children whose mothers had no sign of infection during pregnancy. http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/lit/15.html

11- The Truth about Herpes
"The stigma that connects herpes with "immoral" activity may actually  be the result of the fear of being "caught" with a lifelong disease, rather than anything inherent to the virus or its symptoms. To fully  understand the context in which the disease is transmitted is to grasp what herpes means to an infected person. "
http://www.racoon.com/dcforum/lit/14.html

11- Welcome Aboard
San Antonio, TX Friends - http://members.tripod.com/safriends/
Pacific Northwest Singles - http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/herpessinglesnorthwest

10 - CDC announces the availability of funds for prevention research on genital herpes simplex virus (HSV). The purpose of the program is to stimulate and support projects that will address existing gaps in our knowledge about the psycho social and economic burden of HSV and strategies to prevent transmission of genital herpes simplex infections in the United States in the context of new diagnostic technologies and new therapeutic strategies.
http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/99115.htm (thanks,  gmmd@hotbot.com)

10 - Herpes, Short & Sweet - Dr Ruth considers Herpes
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/drruth/index.html (type  herpes into search subject field)

10 - Let's Face the Silent Epidemic of STDs Susan Burner Bankowski and Dr. Brandon Bankowski,  Vol. 14, The World & I,  1999
http://www.elibrary.com/id/238/190/getdoc.cgi?id=135023839x194y27171w1&Form=EN&Button=MEM&OIDS=0Q001D078&pubname=The_World_~A~_I&p
uburl=http~C~~S~~S~www.worldandi.com&querydocid=203654@library_n&dtype=0~0&dinst=0 (requires free registration)

09 - The proportion of infants 1-42 days of age who were discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis of HSV infection did not change over .... (10 years) .... despite a decrease in deliveries by cesarean section and an increase in the proportion of women with a diagnosis of genital HSV infection who gave birth to infants by vaginal delivery http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10353880&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b

09 - Although the actual risk of disease transmission during mouth-to-mouth ventilation (MMV) is apparently negligible, such fears are  rampant in the current era of universal precautions. Studies indicate health care workers themselves -- including basic life support instructors -- may be as reluctant as laypersons to perform MMV during a cardiac arrest. http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/38c42.htm

09 - With the advent of  of publicly traded health information web sites, PR engines are revving up to distribute their version of  health articles, including herpes. Here's  the latest stock
http://www.drkoop.com/centers/Sexual_Health/herpes_what.asp
and the latest PR flush:
http://cnn.com:80/HEALTH/women/9906/08/pregnancy.stds/

08 - Dole for Herpes President? Elizabeth Dole yesterday called for a doubling of federal funding for medical research and new initiatives to extend health coverage to the 43 million Americans without insurance http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Jun/07/city/DOLE07.htm

08 - Scientific American: Feature Article:Genetic Vaccines: July 1999 http://www.sciam.com/1999/0799issue/0799weiner.html

08 - Herpes Neighbors - A 17-year-old  was named a finalists in a prestigious national science contest. Influenced in part by Russian folk medicine, Erika Ebbel  has determined that extracts from the Mongolian dandelion kill Herpes simplex virus type-1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/05/PN104712.DTL

07 - Herpes Neighbors - Maryland's second-highest court has ruled that the word ``babe'' is not to be used in addressing female lawyers during legal proceedings. The Court of Special Appeals said Thursday the term is derogatory and evidence of gender bias. The ruling involved a deposition hearing in a 1994 lawsuit by a woman seeking damages from a lawyer she said had given her genital herpes. http://www.dallasnews.com:80/national/0605nat1nobabe.htm

07 - We're pregnant, now what? Usually with advancing pregnancy women have sex less frequently and by 36 weeks, 72% of women reported that  they were having intercourse less than once weekly. A word of caution: If you are negative for herpes, there is a chance that your partner might have it and not even know it and  give it to you. some doctors would caution use of condoms in the last trimester of pregnancy when a new infections could cause most harm to the unborn baby. http://www.msnbc.com/news/276290.asp

07 - Herpes Companies SEC Filings : Shaman Pharmaceuticals  The Croton Lines .....which are derived from the Croton lechleri tree that grows abundantly in South America.     - Cold Sore-CL,  a topical cold sore product made from a broader cut  of the latex  one with clinically-tested  anti-herpes activity and another with documented wound healing  effects http://www.tenkwizard.com/fil_submis.asp?iacc=932066&uid=30270279&line=2862&exp=herpes

07 -Scare Tactics - Many of these transfusions carry  potentially harmful viruses and bacteria, such as HIV, hepatitis and herpes http://www.amcity.com/eastbay/stories/1999/05/31/story6.html?h=herpes. (Herpes is not transmitted through the blood stream!)

04- AOLSUCKS.ORG - that's a websiteRegular posters on AOL's Better Health genital herpes support forum are jumping ship to protest AOL's censorship of  postings. Board montors regularly deleted posts mentioning other competing support groups.

04 -Herpes from a Lapdancer's Hands?
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1372.html

04- Biotech Investors - Interesting Forbes magazine review of what's hot
http://www.forbes.com/asap/99/0531/044a.htm

04 - Common Skin Infections in the Elderly
http://www.medscape.com/SCP/IIM/1999/v16.n04/m3096.cott/m3096.cott-01.html

04 - 1 in 4 Blacks View HIV as Federal  Plot
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/health/060399/pm_aids_blacks.sml

02 - Seven plants used by Rwandan traditional healers were screened for antiviral activities. An extract from Maesa lanceolata (African tropical rainforest tree, Orange Maesa Berries) showed  virucidal activity against HSV types 1 and 2  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10350370&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b

02 - France has a smiley for herpes: -  :Q = crier avec un herpes
http://www-perso.infini.fr/Cyril.Quemeras/muco/smileys_fr.html

01 - Science Friction - Mainstream medicine faces a challenge from alternative practices. http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/25/074l-052599-idx.html