Common infant virus may trigger type 1 diabetes

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:07 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. read more

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