Hongxuan He

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/56866

**1. Introduction**

There has been a long history of the battle between viral diseases and the mankind. The arms at our disposal against the virus invasion are continuously expanding its inventory. Most of them fall into the category of vaccines and antiviral and each of the two kinds of viral diseases intervention agents has its own advantages and limitations.
