A Finnish skin specialist said last week that he and other researchers had successfully tested a drug that gave considerable relief to sufferers from both strains of herpes.
Allan Lassus said researchers outside Finland found the drug, Genivir, also relieved virulent skin rashes in patients with AIDS.
He said he had tested the preparation in the form of a cream on 200 patients with genital herpes and 60 with common herpes and found it reduced the length of the attacks.
