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Vaccines and other infrequent medical interventions. Something you can pop once a day for the rest of your life is much more lucrative then a cure or once ever
by lsiebert 8y ago
Vaccines and other infrequent medical interventions. Something you can pop once a day for the rest of your life is much more lucrative then a cure or once every 7 years booster shot vaccine.
Chicken Pox is a type of Herpes virus. There's a vaccine for it, but not for the two strains of herpes most associated with the term herpes.
Development of one seems to have been embroiled in... well lets just say some trouble based on unethical experiments. But really, apparently 90% of people are infected with either type 1 or type 2 herpes simplex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_herpes_simplex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_herpes_simplex
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/health/fda-halford-herpes-vaccine-research/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/health/fda-halford-herpes-vac...
Likewise, Lyme Disease, has a vaccine for animals but not for humans, because production stopped in 2002. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.html https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.html
Oh, and while there is a non profit foundation for it, reversible male contraception like RISUG/Vasalgel seems underfunded. https://www.parsemus.org/ https://www.parsemus.org/