Very interesting article in the Mail Online.
‘Why many of those struck by Long Covid may be suffering from glandular fever: Blood tests on some patients are coming back positive for ‘reactivated’ Epstein-Barr - and it could lead to a range of effective treatments
Most would test positive for...
Full title:
Salivary DNA loads for human herpes viruses 6 and 7 are correlated with disease phenotype in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.20248486v1
Abstract
Background
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) involves severe fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive impairment, leading to functional difficulties; prior studies have not evaluated risk factors with behavioral and immune data collected prior to developing...
Professor Anders Rosén and Eirini Apostolou, PhD, at Linköping University are planning a study consisting of 3 subprojects, looking at cytokines, EBV enzyme, antibodies and reactivated retro virus etc in blood and saliva samples from 200 mild, moderate and severe ME patients and 200 controls...
Significance
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-associated diseases represent a major cause of morbidity worldwide, accounting for at least 1.5% of the global cancer burden, and contributing to autoimmunity.
Viral reactivation from latency is associated with an increased risk of EBV-driven cancers, and...
Nuno Sepúlveda, Jorge Carneiro, Eliana M. Lacerda and Luis C. Nacul
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02684/abstract
Study made with the UK ME/CFS Biobank
Full text not available yet, will be published soon.
Martin Lerner MD proposed that the reason why patients could have negative blood tests for virus yet still be infected was because the virus(es) that infected them became abortive and therefore unable to reproduce. What could cause this change?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008ps8
From today's show.
At 1:10:00 onwards there is a discussion on glandular fever that soon touches on M.E. The discussion is actually quite good - the expert (Dr Sarah Jarvis) describes the risk of glandular fever developing into M.E. and describes M.E...
There are at least eight herpes virus variants that infect humans. These include:
Human herpes virus 1 (HHV1) is also known as herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1).
Human herpes virus 2 (HHV2) is also called herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2).
Human herpes virus 3 (HHV3) is also called varicella-zoster...
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