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Does Russia Have a Vaccine for Herpes?
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a big fan of vaccination in general. If there does exist a vaccine for herpes that is approved, I would not personally recommend using it.
Vaccine safety is a huge issue for me, particularly with the very young and elderly. The ingredients still being added to most vaccines have the potential to cause more harm than good, in my studies. However, in the interest of sharing information, I came across some interesting stuff when revising this web page.
According to NCBI website, there have been clinical trials with Vitaherpavac which is, according to the government website, "the first Russian herpes simplex virus vaccine obtained on the Vero B continuous cell line."
I found this definition of continuous cell lines on the Thermofisher Scientific website:
"Finite vs Continuous Cell Line - Normal cells usually divide only a limited number of times before losing their ability to proliferate, which is a genetically determined event known as senescence; these cell lines are known as finite. However, some cell lines become immortal through a process called transformation, which can occur spontaneously or can be chemically or virally induced. When a finite cell line undergoes transformation and acquires the ability to divide indefinitely, it becomes a continuous cell line."
In the above-cited NCBI summary, they also mention Herpavax, a similar vaccine Herpovax made from the embryo cells of a chick. This vaccine was developed by the Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera, Saint Petersburg and there was also a clinical trial with Herpovax.
The summary of the Russian article just says there were "positive results." I'd recommend digging a little deeper before asking your doctor if these vaccines are available to treat herpes simplex virus.
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