An antidepressant drug suppresses the herpes simplex virus. Tranylcypromine, marketed since the 1960s as Parnate, inhibited initial herpes infection in animal tests, reduced flare-ups in previously infected animals and rendered them less infectious to others, researchers report in the Dec. 3 Science Translational Medicine.
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