Treatment and Prevention
There are no specific treatments, for example, antiviral drugs, that target infections with RRV. Patients are usually managed with simple analgesics, anti-inflammatories, anti-pyretics and rest while the illness runs its course. Infection usually affords lifelong immunity and repeated infection with the virus is very rare.
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