As I understand it, a vaccine is just something that gets your body to produce an immune response to a particular pathogen, so it can be preventive or therapuetic in scope. Most people will only have experience of preventive vaccines over the course of their life however.
The hope for this vaccine is that it will turn out to be what's called a "functional cure", i.e. such a reduction of symptoms in those who've been vaccinated that being infected wouldn't even matter to them, and theoretically passing it on wouldn't matter either as a newly infected person could just get the vaccine as well. They've had promising results from the small pool of people who've already recieved the vaccine but they need more data from more people to know for sure it'll work its magic on everyone. But even if it doesn't, it's still looking likely to be a decent treatment option for herpes sufferers were it made available for the public.
OP's title says he no longer suffers from HSV2, not that he's rid of it.
TL;DR: It's a treatment, a vaccine and possibly a "cure" depending on how you define the word.
Oh! Nearly forgot, Rational Vaccines is working on a preventive vaccine as well called Profavax that you can read about here: http://rationalvaccines.com/Profavax
Sorry if it's already been posted, couldn't be arsed skimming through the thread to be honest 'cause I've been following this for a while and read it all before, lol.
And in case it hasn't been posted yet, here's the link for Theravax, the one we're discussing in this thread: http://rationalvaccines.com/theravax
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As I understand it, a vaccine is just something that gets your body to produce an immune response to a particular pathogen, so it can be preventive or therapuetic in scope. Most people will only have experience of preventive vaccines over the course of their life however.
The hope for this vaccine is that it will turn out to be what's called a "functional cure", i.e. such a reduction of symptoms in those who've been vaccinated that being infected wouldn't even matter to them, and theoretically passing it on wouldn't matter either as a newly infected person could just get the vaccine as well. They've had promising results from the small pool of people who've already recieved the vaccine but they need more data from more people to know for sure it'll work its magic on everyone. But even if it doesn't, it's still looking likely to be a decent treatment option for herpes sufferers were it made available for the public.
OP's title says he no longer suffers from HSV2, not that he's rid of it.
TL;DR: It's a treatment, a vaccine and possibly a "cure" depending on how you define the word.
Oh! Nearly forgot, Rational Vaccines is working on a preventive vaccine as well called Profavax that you can read about here: http://rationalvaccines.com/Profavax
Sorry if it's already been posted, couldn't be arsed skimming through the thread to be honest 'cause I've been following this for a while and read it all before, lol.
And in case it hasn't been posted yet, here's the link for Theravax, the one we're discussing in this thread: http://rationalvaccines.com/theravax
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