A 44-year-old member asked:
does valtrex (valacyclovir) stop herpes meningitis from occuring?
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Dr. Richard Charmoy answered
Dentistry 36 years experience
Very rare: Herpes meningitis is very rare but if the herpes virus was caught and controlled right at the beginning it would make sense from a medical stand point that if and that's a big it meningitis was to occur the herpes would have been resolved . But again this is rare.
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