According to various recent news articles, researchers at Duke University have made a discovery that could make cold sore sufferers very happy. They have found that HSV-1, which is very common and typically causes cold sores on the mouth, produces microbits of genetic material, called LAT RNA, which cause the virus to lay dormant in one’s body. When someone has an outbreak only part of the virus comes to the surface while the remainder stays latent, possibly growing stronger. So even...
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