“Painful Failure of Promising Genital Herpes Vaccine”

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Science
15 October 2010  Vol 330, Issue 6002, Pages 281-412
http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl

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Immunology:
Painful Failure of Promising Genital Herpes Vaccine
Jon Cohen

A vaccine designed to ward off genital herpes has failed in a large clinical trial, abruptly ending the product’s seemingly promising future. After 8 years of study in more than 8000 women in the United States and Canada, there was not even a hint of a positive result against the sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus-2.