One of the traditional approaches to stopping viral infections is vaccination. This has proved successful against smallpox, polio, mumps and measles, to name a few, but vaccination only works prior to infection and in some cases, it is not effective at all.

HIV and herpes are retro-viruses. Retroviridae is a family of enveloped viruses that replicate in a host cell through the process of reverse transcription. A retrovirus is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus with a DNA intermediate and, as an obligate parasite, targets a host cell. Once inside the host cell cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern, thus retro (backwards). This new DNA is then incorporated into the host cell genome by an integrase enzyme, at which point the retroviral DNA is referred to as a provirus. The host cell then treats the viral DNA as part of its own genome, translating and transcribing the viral genes along with the cell’s own genes, producing the proteins required to assemble new copies of the virus. It is difficult to detect the virus until it has infected the host. At that point, the infection will persist indefinitely. To the lay person, they infect the host and then hide waiting to break out into full blown infection. In the case of HIV the result is AIDS which is potentially fatal. In the case of herpes, the outbreak produces very painful lesions called cold sores or fever blisters on the lips and mouth or genital herpes in the intimate regions, or herpes infection of fingers called whitlow, or herpes keratitis of the eye. Clinical trials prove that RELEEV (Viracea) is effective at arresting an outbreak of the herpes virus when the virus becomes active.

It is believed that Viracea denatures the lipid protein shell surrounding the viral RNA. Without the lipid shell the virus cannot attach to the healthy host cell to invade and replicate. Although it is not possible to eliminate a retro-virus from the host once acquired, RELEEV Treatments can heal an outbreak once activated and after the infection becomes full blown.