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Back in the mid-1980s, when scientists first learned that a virus caused a relentless new disease named AIDS, pharmacy shelves were loaded with drugs able to treat bacterial infections. For viral diseases, though,
medicine had little to offer beyond chicken soup and a cluster of vaccines. The story is dramatically different today. Dozens of antiviral therapies,
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