<qa>  What is the common worldwide affliction for which neither public health procedures, vaccines,Herpes simplex labialis is a common, worldwide affliction for which neither public health procedures, vaccines, nor antiviral chemotherapy have had a major impact. The present study has been proposed because it has become clear there are marked limitations to the benefit of antiviral therapy in herpes labialis. Recently, a pilot trial of the combination of famciclovir and topical 0.05 fluocinonide vs famciclovir alone showed that the addition of corticosteroids to the antiviral drug treatment caused a marked and statistically significant reduction in lesion size and a trend to more aborted lesions. 