Marian Nicholson, Author at Herpes Viruses Association

Posted on October 29, 2015February 8, 2018 by Marian Nicholson

Dr George Kinghorn’s talk, 2002: “An Update on Herpes Simplex”

Dr Kinghorn is the consultant in genitourinary medicine at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He is very interested in the herpes simplex virus and is a member of the Herpes Simplex Virus Advisory Panel, which is a sub-group of the prestigious British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. He is also a member of the Independent Advisory Group for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS which advises the government on sexual health services. Over the years, we have sent him some ‘difficult cases’ which he has been able to sort out with ease!

He gave the ‘annual talk’ to members of the Herpes Viruses Association in 2002. Afterwards, he answered our questions – read on Continue reading Dr George Kinghorn’s talk, 2002: “An Update on Herpes Simplex”

Posted on September 23, 2015August 5, 2025 by Marian Nicholson

The Sun’s Story About a Baby and a Cold Sore

The Sun (23-9-15) Wrote About a Mum Who is Asking People Not to Kiss New Babies

Because Claire Henderson had never had a cold sore (or any other herpes simplex virus) her baby did not have any antibody protection when someone with a cold sore kissed baby Brooke. The new-born baby became very ill. Luckily, the hospital put the baby on an aciclovir drip and this ensured that she made a full recovery.

If you have genital herpes, cold sores, or whitlows (on the finger), your new babies have ‘borrowed’ antibody protection that will last them until they are old enough to catch things without danger. So you do not have to worry about infecting your baby.

Since no one knows the antibody status of a new baby, don’t kiss a baby that is not yours!

Posted on August 8, 2014August 5, 2025 by Marian Nicholson

Case Review of the Trial of David Golding – the Result

“The conviction was sound” said the judges at the Case Review, requested by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Read our case review press release, May 2014 and our blog.

This is the only case that has ever reached court, regarding herpes. It happened only because neither David nor his lawyer did anything to find out about herpes. David just went to court and pleaded guilty. There was no trial, therefore this cannot be said to create a precedent.

We can reassure readers that David has got over this and is living happily…

Posted on January 30, 2014August 5, 2025 by Marian Nicholson

Vaccine Trial in London

In December 2012, the Amgen PR lady informed us that their report re the phase I Immunovex vaccine trial was not ready for publication. However she assured us that Amgen is committed to following pharma’s guidelines which say that the results of every trial involving volunteers (42 in this case) must be made public. This vaccine was created by the Biovex company, and Amgen has bought Biovex. Phase I is the safety stage – and, so far, the vaccine has proved safe. So it will be a commercial decision as to whether a phase II trial is undertaken. The hope is that this jab could prevent genital herpes in those as yet uninfected and also act as a treatment for people who are getting too many genital herpse outbreaks.
Continue reading Vaccine Trial in London

Posted on February 11, 2011August 5, 2025 by Marian Nicholson

Our Own Wikipedia Page

NOW DELETED BY WIKIPEDIA

“Our own Wikipedia page: the history of the HVA – why and how we started up – a bit about the creation of the stigma – you can see it on the Herpes Viruses Association Wikipedia page now! It needs someone to go in and ‘edit’ into the text all the links to other pages of Wiki. Whilst creating this page, it became obvious that we could add a lot more about how the stigma was invented on the regular herpes simplex page.”

And then, one day it was gone! Too much was written by us it appears! We thought we were well equipped to describe the charity! It seems we were too well-informed, too close.