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Will vaccine prevent genital herpes?
Although genital herpes affects one in five adult
Americans, nearly 90 percent of people affected by it do not
know they have it.
This sobering statistic motivates physicians like Kevin
Ault, M.D., to attack the disease through patient care and
research.
Ault, an obstetrician/gynecologist at University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics, leads the UI portion of the "Herpevac
Trial for Women," a joint project between GlaxoSmithKline
and the National Institutes of Health.
The clinical trial will investigate a potential vaccine
to prevent genital herpes.
"It has been a big year," Ault said. "This new vaccine
trial is important in our ongoing efforts to advance
prevention. And the FDA has approved an anti-herpes drug
that prevents people with herpes from giving the disease to
a partner who does not have it."
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