How 11 New York City Babies Contracted Herpes Through Circumcision

The report is sure to reignite a long-simmering debate over public health and religious liberties: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported...

Woman Gets $900,000 in Damages after Date Gives Her Herpes

It may not be the most romantic way to open a first date but, as one Oregon man recently discovered, failing to fully disclose a sexually transmitted disease to...

Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Herpes Infection

Encouraged by the success of vaccines against human papillomavirus, researchers began developing a shot that they hoped would immunize women against another...

Herpes Hits French Oyster Industry

Scientists have identified a form of herpes as the culprit in a widespread viral outbreak that has killed as many as 8 billion French oysters in recent weeks...

The New Scarlet Letter

After chastity slouched off into exile in the '60s, the sexual revolution encountered little resistance. Indeed, in the age of the Pill, Penthouse Pets and...

Medicine: Herpes: The New Sexual Leprosy

"Viruses of love " infect millions with disease and despair Susan, 29, a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard, knew her boyfriend had a herpes infection...

Medicine: The Ordeal of the Herpes Kids

"Look out! Here comes the herpes kid." "I don't want to touch him." These jeers greeted Johnny Bigley, 3, when he arrived at school last week in Pasadena, Md.,...

Medicine: Confusion over Infant Herpes

More newborns have the disease, but fears are exaggerated She has pretty blond hair, innocent blue eyes, and at the age of four is only the size of a...

Medicine: Help Is Coming for Herpes

Scientists are developing tests, vaccines and treatments The epidemic continues. An estimated 20.5 million Americans already have genital herpes, and several...

Medicine: More About Herpes

The growing suspicion that mem bers of the herpes family of viruses may play a role in human cancer (TIME, April 23) was heightened even more last week by the...