Scientists make herpes breakthrough

Scientific breakthroughs sound exciting, but what is a breakthrough to a science person is trivial to the rest of society. The so-called breakthrough is that doctors have pinpointed the explanation behind how the herpes virus becomes latent and why it wakes up. No cure. Just a few extra paragraphs for the textbook. Call me when you got a cure for it. Or cancer — that would be good too.

But since nobody on Digg actually reads the stories before voting for them, we got some entertaining comments based on the false belief that there was actually some medical discovery of interest.

hakkola says

Herpes wakes up? Now that would be the true tyrant alarm clock, hit the snooze button and BAM! Herpes.

HotDogBun notes

Most of this research is funded by Madonna

cadmiumpaint says

Tila Tequilla is relieved....

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