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>Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan.

So why isn't that a standard treatment now? The abstracts of both studies indicate they were looking at existing antiherpetic treatments.




Because internet news spreads quicker than doctor gossip? Since the side-effects with some of the antiviral drugs are almost negligible, you can just but those and try :)


Things move slowly in medicine, and this is bleeding edge research.




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