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- From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: herpes virus
- Message-ID: <2173@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:13:39 GMT
- References: <41267@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA
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- In article <41267@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman) writes:
- >Can the herpes virus infect the brain? What kind of damage can
- >it do to the CNS?
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- If by herpes virus you mean herpes simplex, then the answer is yes --
- it can cause an often fatal encephalitis. Those who survive may
- well have permanent brain damage of various sorts. The virus seems
- to have a preference for the temporal lobes of the brain.
-
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- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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