[germainebull]

Experts have found the secret key that the herpes virus uses to invade our cells. They combined AI tricks with lab work, grabbed just one amino acid and turned it off. The virus was completely unable to penetrate.

This issue would have taken years, but it has become a beast. Now the doors have opened to develop more modern drugs to fight the virus. In other words, science has made great strides, things are hot!

[Fergal]

Does this knowledge have a practical use to help us protect ourselves?

[germainebull]

Guess we could by tinkering with the involved amino acid.

[usahacker]

No, but it can help speed healing of an existing outbreak. I start taking it as soon as I feel an outbreak coming on. That “feeling” is called prodrome. One is infectious during prodrome as well as during an outbreak.

[germainebull]

Sure.
Any scientific information is useful.
Herpes or not.