| | | Perhaps even more potential... Shingles derives from Herpes Zoster or HHV-3.
There are 9 herpesvirus types known to infect humans: herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2, HSV-1 and HSV-2, (also known as HHV1 and HHV2), varicella-zoster virus (VZV, which may also be called by its ICTV name, HHV-3), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV or HHV-4), human cytomegalovirus (HCMV or HHV-5), human herpesvirus 6A and 6B ( HHV-6A and HHV-6B), human herpesvirus 7 ( HHV-7), and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV, also known as HHV-8). [7] In total, there are more than 130 herpesviruses...
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Now this...
"For decades, research into treatments for Alzheimer's Disease has run into dead end after dead end. We don't know how to definitively prevent the chronic neurodegenerative disease, nor how to treat it with consistent efficacy, despite billions spent on research each year. A sense of futility has started to spread, prompting some to rethink common theories and others to throw up their hands in resignation. This year, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer ended research into Alzheimer's treatments altogether...
...The present findings are thorough, but do not definitively implicate herpesviruses as the cause of Alzheimer's disease. It's still possible that HHV-6 viruses are merely opportunistic agents, infecting brains already weakened by disease. Still, given the current bleak landscape of Alzheimer's treatment research, herpesviruses are definitely worth investigating further. Treatments that somehow reduce these pathogens in a diseased brain might just yield the positive results that tens of millions of people have been hoping for."
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