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Posted by: STONERS 1 year, 11 months agoPeople who took a drug to reduce outbreaks of genital herpes were not any less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, an international team of researchers reported on Monday.
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Feb. 4, 2008, 4:42 p.m."This herpes virus, which infects an estimated 45 million people in the United States alone, has been shown to raise the risk of HIV infection by as much as 69 percent."
"It causes painful, suppurating blisters and one obvious theory for why people with herpes are also more likely to get HIV was that the open sores give the AIDS virus a doorway into the body."
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