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The Cold Sore Virus Can Infect Your Brain. But How Does It Get Inside?


We already know that the virus behind cold sores, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), can also infect the brain and the central nervous system, and now a new study sheds more light on how the viral attack spreads out.

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