enterovirus

As detailed in my post here, I went to Frankfurt's Institute of Virology to get checked for enteroviruses. I'm slightly confused by the cutoff for a positive result as I have two results that are 1:160, everything else less than that. The lab in Germany told me: "We only rate results as highly...

Salidroside is one of the active principles of Rhodiola rosea, a herb which is used for anxiety, fatigue and depression. An in vivo study on mice found that salidroside doses of 20, 40 and 80 mg/kg improved survival rate in mice infected with coxsackievirus B3, and performed better than the...

Can enterovirus RNA be found in the blood? The literature indicates that, after the acute phase of an enteroviral infection, the virus can only be found in tissues, but not in the blood. But are there any exceptions to this rule, perhaps for some specific groups of patients? 1) One small study...

Over the past few months I have compiled a list of all Enterovirus associated diseases. Some of these are broad (as in other diseases / viruses can cause them), some are speculation, but a majority are confirmed to be associated or semi-associated (i.e. multiple possible pathologies). I also...

This is part of Polybio's new PodCast posted about by @Pyrrhus earlier this month.

I believe my ME/CFS was triggered by mono and I have improved with valacyclovir, I was negative for high titers to HHV-6, Parvovirus, and CMV. I am thinking about pursuing enterovirus testing through ARUP. For those of you who tested positive for enteroviruses, did you have GI symptoms that...

Christoph's Funding Challenge: Donate to Dr. Maureen Hanson's enterovirus study now! Every bit helps!

The Enterovirus Theory of Disease Etiology in ME/CFS: A Critical Review (O'Neal and Hanson, 2021) Adam J. O'Neal and Maureen R. Hanson https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.688486/abstract Abstract: (spacing added for readability) For more detailed excerpts, see this post...

Have you guys seen this? I can't find much talk about it recently in the forum. Fluoxetine blocks the replication of enterovirus B, so coxsackie B and echovirus. This article from 2019 talks about exactly how it works. July 15, 2019 - Fluoxetine Inhibits Enterovirus Replication by Targeting...

A new study found evidence that hydroxychloroquine 400 mg plus zinc 50 mg daily has efficacy against COVID-19. This is in contrast to several other studies which found that hydroxychloroquine without zinc is not effective for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is a zinc ionophore, meaning that it...

The return of Polio to the USA? Is paralysis being mis-diagnosed as psychiatric? This is the first of two posts. The first post provides some essential background, and the second post examines the statistical anomaly that suggests that FND might be over-diagnosed in the US and UK. Background...

Article: „Knocking out 1 protein may cure the common cold“ https://www.futurity.org/common-cold-viruses-2162532-2/ Study: Enterovirus pathogenesis requires the host methyltransferase SETD3, Nature Microbiology, Page 2058-5276, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0551-1

Paper published in mBio August 13, 2019. Free Full Text copy available via PubMed. Summary: Evidence of infection with an enterovirus was found in about 80% of people with acute flaccid myelitis. More research is needed to understand whether enterovirus infection contributes to the...

Finally, serious research is being deployed into physical causes of ME/CFS, giving hope to many who had given up hope for a better future and had resigned themselves to a life of ill health with very little prospect of improvement. I for one am very happy that serious research is being...

After spending decades carefully avoiding the use of the word “cause” in relation to enteroviruses, the CDC has now conceded for the first time that Enterovirus D68 causes paralysis. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6815a4.htm?s_cid=mm6815a4_w

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Given the recent interest in exosomes, I thought I might share some research on extracellular vesicles that the media have, somewhat sensationally, dubbed “Stealth Spheres”: References: (Chen et al., 2015)...

Revealing enterovirus infection in chronic human disorders: An integrated diagnostic approach Interesting study with implications for future ME pathogen research. These are the sorts of methods that need to be attempted going forward I believe if researchers insist on using blood instead of...

Following on from the California outbreak, here is a paper on one in Colorado. A cluster of acute flaccid paralysis and cranial nerve dysfunction temporally associated with an outbreak of enterovirus D68 in children in Colorado, USA There is an interesting associated Physician's First Watch...

Reports of a small outbreak of a polio-like disease in California, possibly associated with enterovirus-68. BBC News 24 February 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26289614

This comes from theage.com in Austrailia, just posted on Facebook: Five Children Hit By a Polio-like Paralysis An outbreak of an infectious virus that can cause polio-like paralysis is concerning health officials. The same virus, a strain of enterovirus 71 (EV71), has led to hundreds of...