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Originally Posted by Tempest
Wrong... It can also prescribed if you've had an organ transplant (or have HIV or anything that suppresses your immune system) in order to prevent a particular type of infection that can be life threatening.
And also for "shingles"..
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Ummmm..... it's prescribed to HIV folk to prevent them from getting huge awful herpes outbreaks, and to organ transplat patients for the prevention of CMV disease. CMV and shingles are both a type of herpes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtrex
This thread is only about one thing - HERPES. No biggie..... 1 in 4 have it, but usually only about 0 in 4 write threads announcing it.