Common infant virus may trigger type 1 diabetes
Friday, December 19, 2008 - 16:42
in Health & Medicine
Human parechovirus is a harmless virus which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms. Suspected of triggering type 1 diabetes in susceptible people, research methods need to take this "silent" virus into consideration. This comes from findings in a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
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