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Thank the lord for gene therapy. Most promising yet but who wants the cure? It's bad business.
Univ. of Florida
http://apps.rgp.ufl.edu/otl/viewTechInfo.cfm?case=10994

Companies working on new therapy.
http://www.antigenics.com/trials/
http://www.henderson-morley.com/main...programme.html
http://www.nanobio.com/

There maybe light at the end of tunnel in near future.[/url]

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They have a cure and no one is willing to license this? MY god. They have a cure?!?

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Thank the lord for gene therapy. Most promising yet but who wants the cure? It's bad business.
Univ. of Florida
http://apps.rgp.ufl.edu/otl/viewTechInfo.cfm?case=10994

Companies working on new therapy.
http://www.antigenics.com/trials/
http://www.henderson-morley.com/main...programme.html
http://www.nanobio.com/

There maybe light at the end of tunnel in near future.[/url] This is a message I got from GlaxoSmith I sent them an email regarding this subject:

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I think the reason why these big drug companies can get away with "suppressing the cure" is because they know we are the silent sufferers... things will not change unless we come together and hit them where it hurts... in their pockets!

Go for the herbal treatment rather than these expensive drugs. Don't settle for anything less than a permanent solution. In other words, if these money grabbing corporations can't come up with a permanent cure, we go herbal until they do.

It's the only way. They won't listen to anything else the sound of money... or the lack of it...

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what can we do to help move this along? what do people think about starting a letter writing campaign to news, philanthropic, and other influential organizations like 60 minutes, dateline, the cdc, the gates foundation, oprah winfrey, and politicians pointing out this widespread epidemic and the absurdity that an actual cure is out there sitting on a shelf due to lack of funding? meanwhile, people are shelling out thousands of dollars for pills they must take for the rest of their lives that will neither cure them nor totally prevent transmission. surely, with enough letter writing, we can get some attention on this.

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what can we do to help move this along? . I wrote to the university in florida who is doing this research, and this is the reply I got. I think we really should get Oprah on this. There are so many movie stars with clauses in their contracts regarding oral herpes (they must take suppressive medication during filming so as not to lose time and money due to an oral sore). And we all know that if one movie star were to come out and say he or she also had genital herpes we'd all be like, hey me too and maybe someone would do something about it.

Elizabeth Garami
<egarami@rgp.ufl.edu> to me
9:03 am (44 minutes ago)


Thanks for your interest in UF10994.

This technology is in preclinical stage of development. The group of
investigators continues to work on this project but unfortunately is not
yet available for clinical trials or available as a treatment.

We continue to promote this technology and looking for commercial
partners that would collaborate with us to bring this technology to
market to help the many HSV patients. We need capital investment and a
biotech or pharmaceutical partner that would help in bringing this
product to market, that is why we are looking for a licensee.

If you come across corporations that would be interested in investing in
the development of this treatment, please feel free to provide them with
the link to the technology and my email contact

Best regards,

Elizabeth Garami

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This is really unbeleivable we should do all we can to let more and more people know about this.!!!

Something should happen, there are so many suffering.

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If the influential people,the ones that own,control the large drug companys were suddenly infected..Yes..I beleive there would be
more resources put towards it.Unfortunatley Humans(or most) are
conditioned as they grow up that money/power is a very important thing
that you need/want in life...even if it means people will suffer/the money
comes first....sad but true

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If the influential people,the ones that own,control the large drug companys were suddenly infected..Yes..I beleive there would be more resources put towards it. Those influential people are infected just like the general population is.

Dissertation Dispelling the Myths About Drug Companies:
A drug company does not make money by ?hiding? a cure (which isn?t even possible in the first place) or ?keeping people sick?. They have one interest: patents. The money trail:

• (1) It doesn?t matter whether the patent cures something or not because either way it will expire, ending the profit stream.
  (2) Nearing the expiration for a patent, they ?encourage? (translation: pay, bribe and swindle) smaller generic drug makers to postpone market entry so their patents can effectively still exist. This can send a corporate board to jail so it only goes so far.
  (3) So they need a new patent. The new patent is often just a derivative of a soon-to-expire one, but chemically different enough to get patent approval. Sometimes the new patent is just an isomer of an old one. Sometimes the new patent is only different in its side effects. Sometimes the new patent is just a change in an old patent?s absorption rate (i.e., change in the drug?s release mechanism, not the chemical compound itself).

Ok. So far, nothing here to prevent cures.

• (4) They make money by lobbying big business-friendly administrations, primarily republicans (and a smaller proportion of democrats), to pass legislation that mimics a bundle of new patents (e.g., the recently passed prescription drug bill will generate more money for drug companies than any single patent ever produced---estimates are in the trillions?and if they never come up with another patent over the next 50 years, they will still be more profitable than every other industry in U.S. history.)

How does this affect you and herpes?
Problem #1:

• Since the prescription drug bill is guaranteed revenue, the drug companies can relax, downsize expensive research groups, and feel no pressure to do viral research from which we would all benefit.You will wait even longer for improved therapies and cures to be found.

Problem # 2:

• The drug bill prevents the largest drug buyer (the govt., i.e., medicare) from negotiating on price (like all private insurance companies can). So private insurance companies get to pick and choose who they will cover (only the youngest and healthiest, of course) and how much they will charge (a very decent premium, of course), vs. Medicare which now has no say in either case: they must cover everybody who shows up no matter how sick, and because of the Bush bill, they must pay whatever the drug company tells them to, even though that same drug company will be selling those same drugs for hundreds of percent less (and still be making a big profit) to private insurance companies. This will force Medicare to look less efficient than private insurers and republicans will parlay that appearance into a discrediting of a government program toward which they have traditionally been hostile. So the govt has power to negotiate on price for every lockscrew of a black hawk helicopter and still leave a healthy profit for the defense industry, but not for prescription drugs. The current administration gave this power away to the biggest business--pharmaceuticals?the most profitable industry in U.S. history, and therefore the one that least needs govt help. You will pay higher taxes for overcharged drugs for Medicare recipients..

• (5) Drug companies make money lobbying the AMA and medical institutions to set more stringent health standards that have questionable/ marginal health benefits: for example, to make more money on cholesterol drugs, they lobby to get the ?recommended? healthy cholesterol range to be below 180 vs. below 200 that we currently use. This immediately triggers a new wave of previously ?healthy? people (all those from 180 to 199) to shift into the ?unhealthy?, or ?at risk? category and now need drugs.
  (6) BIG DADDY: They make money by buying doctors?there isn?t a doctor in private practice who hasn?t been to Hawaii all expenses paid by some drug company who wants that doctor to prescribe their drug. After patents (and legislation), it?s the number 1 way they make their money.

Drug companies don?t spend money finding a cure and then refuse to sell it unless it won?t be a big seller. If it will be a small seller, they cut their losses and sell the rights to its development and marketing to a smaller company and go focus on more important blockbuster drug categories. But the ?cure? still gets marketed. Science can?t be hidden. If it could, there wouldn?t be any need for a patent because nobody would know how to copy the cure drug to begin with. Patents exist because drug companies can?t hide cures and keep secrets.

Drug companies aren?t thinking about "suppressing" a herpes "cure". They have bigger fish to fry. They have presidents to buy; presidential elections to finance; governors who may become president to curry favor with; physician practice groups to fly first class to Hawaii; government officers to seduce into changing TV drug advertising policy; and FDA officers to seduce to recommend more lenient routes to patents (translation: smaller and shorter clinical trial phases). Patents + these arenas of influence are where the money is.

How sick you are does not determine how much money a drug company makes. What matters is who the president is, what administration is in office, the drug policy and economy of the country you are selling your drugs to, and how fast a patent can get to market. There?s plenty of disease all over the world that no drug company is making a dime off of. In fact, most diseases and sick people in the world aren?t making any drug company rich.