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SheSellsSeaShells967 t1_jd6qt4i wrote

Reply to comment by InfamousCelery4438 in Higher breakthrough rate lately with Covid in Maine? by BadLuckShoesie

I have had mono several times in my life. Then I developed rheumatoid arthritis, which I feel was jumpstarted by the Epstein Barr virus.

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InfamousCelery4438 t1_jd7whzz wrote

My daughter's husband has Multiple Sclerosis and I read on Johns Hopkins website that they now think there's a connection between Mono aka Epstein Barr virus, and MS. It's the little bugs we have to worry about. But I guess you know that already. I'm sorry for your troubles.

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heavymetaltshirt t1_jd7wn13 wrote

Autoimmune disorders can definitely be jumpstarted by an infection (virus or bacteria). That include things like RA but also Type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, and others

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SheSellsSeaShells967 t1_jdh9jrv wrote

I also had a mystery virus for months when I was about three years old. The doctors back then pumped me full of antibiotics, which of course don’t kill a virus. We lived in Boston at the time and I saw a new doctor. Way back then in the 60s he was telling people that antibiotics don’t kill viruses. That was kind of a new idea back then. But anyway, I was sick for months and no one has ever figured out what it was.

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