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Article: Herpes; drug eases symptoms, but still no cure. (acyclovir)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- April 1, 1985
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When genital herpes began to grab the attention of the American public in the early 1980s, the fear and loathing this venereal disease evoked were mainly due to its incurable, and even untreatable, nature. Now, after being discussed on virtually every talk show and written about in thousands of magazines and newspapers across the country, the uproar over this "epidemic of the '80s" has dminished somewhat. But the fear and loathing remain, as does the search for a cure.
Progress has been made, however, in finding effective treatments for this disease, which afflicts millions of Americans, with some 300,000 new cases every year. This past January, the Fodd and ...