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Is mono something you have for life? like carrying the infection for life? or you can get rid of it completely?
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EBV yes, mono no: Like all the human herpes viruses, epstein-barr virus remains in the body, latent some of the body's lymphocytes. It periodically reactivates asymptomatically and it is secreted in the saliva.
Answered 11/10/2017
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