So herpes family viruses cause mild cold-like symptoms at first, then go latent, and then later cause:
- ⚠️ 100% of Lupus [1]
- ⚠️ >99% of Multiple Sclerosis [2]
- ⚠️ 20% of dementia [3]
- ⚠️ significant % of ME/CFS [4]
[1] science.org/doi/10.1126/scitra…
[2] pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
[3] nature.com/articles/s41586-025…
[4] pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
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