Re: [DIYbio] Re: Avoiding Herpes Silmplex

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 01:55:45PM -0800, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:
> It definitely is scary, recieving a sexually-transmitted disease by just
> touching the cup of another person. Also if 90% of humans already
> encountered it. Starting in 2014, herpes vaccination will be free of charge
> in my contry. Shouldn't have waited for that :P
It's an illness that is sexually-transmitted and contact
transmitted, I don't get your remark about that.
And you may encounter it in your future life more than you can think
of, and you have probably encountered it as a child too.

57.7% of people are contaminated by it [1]. You can be
contagious even with no visible lesions. And it seems that at least
33% of people have visible symptoms [2].
Don't forget that stress kills more people than Herpes ;)

On mices, it seems that Glycyrrhizin (from licorice root) is able to
reduce the encephalitis risk[4]. Which in no way means that it could
be the case in humans.

However if you use it, reminds that licorice can have bad effects if you
consume it excessively[3]!

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[1] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=203222
[2] French phone study by "Association Herpès", can't find any other
reference than the wikipedia one.
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11394578?dopt=Abstract
[4] See the références in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice#Toxicity