Clear skies? Acne vaccine in development

Vaccines prevent measles, mumps and chicken pox—but researchers have a new target. A new vaccine, being developed by scientists at the University of California, San Diego, hopes to prevent acne.

While it may be bad news for the cosmetics industry, the new vaccine comes at a time when the rates of the unsightly skin condition is increasing.

“The incidence of adult female acne is increasing every year," said Joshua Zeichner, an acne specialist and director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. "And no one really knows why. It’s like having a complacent personality versus an argumentative one—histrionic skin fights back against bacteria we’re all covered in and breaks out.”

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