Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

Re:Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzhe... by code51 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:46PM (#17368651)

Someone noted (vedtopkar) these are "HHV-6 and HHV-7, which cause roseola". Note that it's an incredibly common infection in babies.

There's also another study investigating association between HHV-6 and measles virus serology and brain antibody in autism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756729

Reading these studies makes me think an ineffective blood-brain barrier or a brain-specific defence might trigger common viruses to present a wider family of brain-related diseases.

We also know there is literature on encephalitis caused by both HHV-6 and measles. I'm speculating that even in a micro, benign form, this condition is enough the shake brain structure.

We should probably investigate a more complex but more generic model of brain diseases.

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Re:Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzhe... by Gibbon1 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:59PM (#17370950)

> measles virus serology

Potentially topical oddball thing I learned while looking up something on measles. About 1 in 10000 people[1] that contact measles go on to develop subacute sclerosing panencephalitis[2] 6 to 15 years later. While results in brain deterioration and death.

[1] Might be 10X higher.

[2] Obligatory Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencepha...

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