>>12667084While I agree with you on some vaccines, others seem to work including the chicken pox vaccine which also stops herpes outbreaks for some people. The obvious answer is it's more profitable to prescribe people anti virals for a very mild(in most people) skin condition that the media has stigmatized in the US. They could have had a vaccine/cure years ago, it's just not on their priorities list. Unless someone has a bad immune system or awful diet they rarely get outbreaks, and if they do there are natural antivirals that work better than the prescribed ones