The researchers found that those who had been circumcised were twenty-eight percent less likely to get genital herpes than uncircumcised men.

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The research also shows circumcision reduces the risk for another common sexually transmitted infection, genital herpes.

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None had HIV, genital herpes or HPV at the start of the study.

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Overall, circumcision reduced the men's risk of genital herpes by 28 percent (10.3 percent of uncircumcised men developed genital herpes compared with 7.8 percent of circumcised men) and HPV infection by 35 percent (27.8 percent of uncircumcised men were infected with HPV compared with 18 percent of circumcised men).

CNN: Circumcision reduces risk of herpes and HPV infection

The app screens for STDs that result in physical symptoms such as syphilis, herpes and genital warts.

CNN: High-tech tools for STDs

It had high hopes for Vistide, a drug to treat herpes, genital warts and a retina-destroying virus in late-stage AIDS patients.

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