Today, there is only one class of antiviral medicines against herpes viruses.

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Today, there is only one class of antiviral medicines against herpes viruses--which cause mononucleosis, herpes, shingles, and meningitis. In a search for new drugs to treat viral infections, scientists at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, found that a medicine routinely used to treat heart failure, spironolactone, has an unexpected ability to block...

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