News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - January 1983

Youth Magazine Staff

The Herpes Curse - Epcot: Forerunner of the Future? - Cars That Can Talk - COUNTRY IN FOCUS: W. Germany - West Germany Changes Helmuts: According to medical research, virtually all teens have or will have a herpes virus at some point in their lives. Shocking? Not when you consider that several viruses make up the herpes family including chicken pox, mononucleosis ("mono") and shingles. But what has people concerned today are the two types of herpes simplex virus. Once infected with either strain, a person is infected for life. Almost everyone has been exposed to herpes simplex type I, but many people have a natural immunity to this strain. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library