Why The Pharmaceutical Industry Still Hasn't Found A Cure For Herpes

There is one key reason as to why the pharmaceutical industry has been unable to develop a real herpes cure. This is against a background where the said pharmaceutical industry has, in the last two hundred years or so, come up with cures for other much more serious conditions that were previously viewed as untreatable. For example, the condition known as pneumonia. It has claimed so many lives in the past that it was thought to have no cure. But now, all patients suffering from pneumonia has to do is take some antibiotic doses and they'll be good as new.

Pharmaceutical companies have also successfully formulated cures for cases of hepatitis, typhoid fever and tuberculosis, and most of them are quite inexpensive too. In the face of all those discoveries and successes, it is now a mystery why a simple condition such as herpes still has no known cure developed by these pharmaceutical companies. As it turns out, the reason as to why the pharmaceutical industry has been unable to develop a herpes cure lies in the fact that the virus that causes herpes is capable of cunningly hiding itself. It is quite a cunning virus, only showing itself long enough to bring about the herpes outbreak in the patient. Afterwards, it will go back into hiding, which it does so very well.

It does not even take a full attack to bring about the herpes. Only a few virus could accomplish it while the rest stay in hiding. True, the viruses that come out of hiding may be combated through drugs or by the body's own immunity. But these drugs and the person's antibodies cannot deal with those that have kept themselves hidden so well. So it becomes hard to cure herpes completely, because at any given point in time, some of the viruses that causes it are always in hiding and they can't be reached by drugs or get tackled by the body's own immunity.

But technology advancements, particularly that which involves looking into viruses' DNA genomes, are now more giving us hope that, in the near future, these pharmaceutical companies could come up with a real herpes cure. In some researches, they seem to have identified the exact gene that has been serving as an effective hiding place for the viruses. Now their efforts are turned towards making sure the gene does not develop any further. This will effectively cramp the style of the viruses, depriving them of a good place to hide and then allowing the pharmaceutical companies to come up with methods to bring these hidden viruses out into the open to be treated with the drugs. This should translate into a definitive cure for herpes: whether that happens to be oral herpes or genital herpes.

Even as we await for the pharmaceutical industry to give us a real herpes cure though, we can continue coping with the condition through the treatments that are currently available. While it is true that a definitive cure for herpes has not been found yet, these companies were able to come up with treatments and medication designed to manage the symptoms. Someone who has herpes is likely to be largely ok having the condition as long as he makes use of the herpes treatments available to him. While it is true that they don't cure the condition, they are effective in dealing with the symptoms, which is already a huge thing for the patients.