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Submitted to Digg by MaxP3 on 07/02/2008, to Reddit by modestokun, and to Mixx by Tomatoes

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It’s a problem that some experience, ugly cold sores that appear around the mouth occasionally.  Researchers at Duke University have discovered how it hides itself temporarily from the body’s immune system.  Understanding this is helping researchers find an actual cure - as opposed to just treating the virus.

Adrian67 also submitted this story to Digg from a different domain on the same day.

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The secret of how the cold sore virus manages to persist for a lifetime in the human body may have been cracked by US scientists.

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