herpes vaccine

The story of Rational Vaccines' pursuit of a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes may go down as one of the strangest and most controversial chapters in the history of drug or vaccine development. Dr.

In 2017 Dr.

Once again, the news is bad for the millions of people who are suffering from herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), much the same as I reported

During the past 9+ decades, vaccines for genital herpes have come and gone. Make that gone and gone.

Richard Mancuso is one of the 17 (1) patients who participated in the highly controversial Theravax herpes vaccine trial in St. Kitts.

If you ever need a reminder about how difficult it is to discover new drugs or vaccines, here it is.

I have written much about herpes vaccines, especially Genocea's GEN-003 and Rational Vaccines' Theravax (1,2).