You are downvoted I guess because of the not common sentence (not exactly sure as you even say some of them)? But I only heard of epstein barr from House (or ER

You are downvoted I guess because of the not common sentence (not exactly sure as you even say some of them)? But I only heard of epstein barr from House (or ER, not entirely sure; some US show anyway) and started reading; seems herpes is connecting all these (at least here) puberty things like mono and different types of herpes and indeed ebv. They all apparently are herpes viruses and indeed, like you say can cause an array of cancers (dementia I could not find but the cancer link was made in a lot of scientific and gov papers). So herpes is rather important to destroy as it (and that included ebv) never goes away and 90%+ people have it. Which makes it easy to make the joke ‘these days everything causes cancer’ which is probably true because if you get old enough, you will develop cancer, but it does not mean we should not try to prevent some of the ways it works. So anyway, never thought ebv is common as I never heard of it in my country but that is because it is confused or piled on with mono (seems the symptoms are similar) and I know quite a lot more about herpes in general. So thanks and you are right; let’s do something about it, but also about the other diseases they mention as they are common in some country; all my Vietnam colleagues and their family had Dengue for instance and it is not good.