>. All of the known STDs... herpes and human papilloma virus are both viral stds long known. I was in college then and with recurrent strep (bacterial) treate

>. All of the known STDs... herpes and human papilloma virus are both viral stds long known. I was in college then and with recurrent strep (bacterial) treated in infectious diseases at a major hospital in Chicago, where HIV patients were also treated; they (science, doctors) knew what was going on very well, but how to effectively treat it was totally the unknown, to your point.