re: Good news for a lot of you

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Actually, since it's a vaccine, it won't help most on the board currently. But it will be good for our children.

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The group tested the vaccine in two animals infected with HSV-2, or genital herpes: macaque monkeys and guinea pigs. The monkeys were there for obvious reasons—their immune systems function nearly identically to ours, so if the vaccine works on them, it should work on us. And the researchers saw the immune response they expected, across the board (though the monkey group, Friedman openly admits, was quite small).

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