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This may be relevant to us if the less common HHV-6a is found in many of us, as I suspect it might.
Read about it at the HHV-6 Foundation: http://www.hhv-6foundation.org/
Some interesting bits:
HHV-6A and HHV-6B now recognized as two distinct viruses
Read about it at the HHV-6 Foundation: http://www.hhv-6foundation.org/
Some interesting bits:
[my bolding]HHV-6A has been found more frequently in patients with neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) arhomboencephalitis. HHV-6A is acquired later in life, usually without clinical symptoms, except in Sub-Saharan Africa where (unlike in the US and Europe) HHV-6A is the first of the two HHV-6 viruses to be acquired in the majority of the pediatric population.
HHV-6B is more prevalent than HHV-6A in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy adults and transplant patients, while HHV-6A is found more frequently in the plasma of HSCT patients. HHV-6B but not HHV-6A is commonly found in saliva. HHV-6A, but not HHV-6B can productively infect CD8+ T-cells, natural killer cells, and γ/δ (gamma/delta) T-cells.
HHV-6A and HHV-6B now recognized as two distinct viruses