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Epstein-Barr virus

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Epstein-Barr virus

Virus that causes glandular fever. It is also implicated in nasopharyngeal cancer (rare in Europe but a scourge in Asia), Burkitt's lymphoma, and possibly Hodgkin's disease. Epstein-Barr virus is carried by 90% of people, and experimental vaccines are being developed against it.



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Other pathogens, including cytomegalovirus (7), Epstein-Barr virus (7), Haemophilus influenzae (11-14), and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (7,15,16), have been suggested as possible GBS triggers, as was influenza vaccination in the United States during 1976-1977 (17).
16 British Medical Journal, a team led by psychiatrist Ian Hickie of Sydney (Australia) University reports that 29 of 253 people who became infected with any of three viruses, including Epstein-Barr virus, developed CFS soon afterward.
Numerous studies have shown that patients with T and NK cell lymphomas of the sinonasal area have a high incidence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection.
 
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