I am surprised to see this data, because my impression was that you essentially had to be a physically and mentally flawless human being to go into space.
Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
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#22Space is cool, but I didn't see any gravity related controls nor any other space specific controls. Consider that the relationship between stress (HPA axis, etc.) and viral activation is pretty well known. Models of chronic rodent stress include constant loud noise, uncomfortable environmental scale (open spaces versus "comfortable" places with places to hide/nest), weird lighting and temperature, "violent" (freaking…
I would humbly suggest submarine crews as control group.
Canned air, tight space, weird sleep cycles, noise and artificial light. Submarine crews are even more isolated because they can't contact families while underway.
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#23Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
"In my country" with no context and not even a name for your country? I'm disinclined to believe that your anecdote accurately describes any country.
I like how you've inverted the common "US represents the world" fallacy by literally asserting that your herpes-blind nation is representative of the entire world exclusive of the US.
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#24I am surprised to see this data, because my impression was that you essentially had to be a physically and mentally flawless human being to go into space.
They don't mention simplex B, which makes me wonder if it cancels you out.
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#25Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
Note also though that Wikipedia claims that genital herpes infection rate increased dramatically during the 1970s. If true, it's not surprising that it would be relatively unknown before the increase and stigmatized after. HIV wasn't stigmatized in the 70s either.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
Everyone gets it. It just goes away, often for years. There's no cure. Like colds.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
Although it's not curable, there are a lot of good, cheap treatments available, and many people can go long periods of time with no symptoms. Consider the line from the Wikipedia page: "Worldwide rates of either HSV-1 or HSV-2 are between 60% and 95% in adults." If infection rates are that high, it's probably not that big of a deal for most people.
Most of that 60-95% is oral, though. Genital infection rates are far lower, at <20% in the US.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
Everyone gets it. It just goes away, often for years. There's no cure. Like colds.
> There's no cure. Like colds.
Colds resolve in a few days to a week. There is absolutely a cure, just not one in pill form.
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#29Interesting to me personally because I'd never heard before that HSV-1 reactivation was stress-linked.
If you ever had chicken pox, high stress can re-activate the dormant virus, and it reactivates as "shingles". There is a vaccine that came out a few years ago to suppress it from happening.
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#30Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982 It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes." https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.
Why so confrontational? It's a simple mistake, and relatively harmless since the meaning is not at all changed.