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Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer's
- Jimmc414 2y agoPaper: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14401 https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz...
- gnabgib 2y agoThe virus: Herpes ## Related: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s (255 points, 5 years ago, 121 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094317 Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s (190 points, 6 years ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115 Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication (340 points, 6 years ago, 120 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes (147 points, 6 years ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521994 Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease (152 points, 7 years ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591 ## Related papers: Anti-herpetic tau preserves neurons via the cGAS-STING-TBK1 pathway in Alzheimer’s disease (2025) https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)01460-8 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)014... Alzheimer's disease-associated CD83(+) microglia are linked with increased immunoglobulin G4 and human cytomegalovirus in the gut, vagal nerve, and brain (2024) https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14401 https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz... Single cell transcriptomes and multiscale networks from persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49790-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49790-0
- this_steve_j 2y agoRecently related: Herpes virus and repeated head trauma linked to Alzheimer’s, study finds (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629076 Why Alzheimer's Scientists Are Re-Thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628529 Herpes Virus Might Drive Alzheimer's Pathology, Study Suggests (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578383 Taxi, ambulance drivers offer a clue to reduced Alzheimer's risk (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502899