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HHV-6 Foundation
Introduction
HHV-6 is an infection that can persist in the brain tissue long after the primary infection and after evidence of the virus has long disappeared from the plasma in the circulating blood. Therefore, direct evidence of chronic infection is not easily attainable by standard laboratory tests, even though it has long been suspected as playing a role in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), in conjunction with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) the virus that causes mononucleosis.
Doctors couldn’t explain this 16-year-old’s bizarre neurological and psychiatric symptoms.
Forbes.com
Rebecca Ruiz, 01.13.10, 04:00 PM EST
New York University neurologist Souhel Najjar specializes in solving puzzling cases that other doctors have given up on. Last August he took on one of the most challenging cases of his career.
He saw a 19-year-old girl who had been an honor student before experiencing a bizarre decline that caused her to drop out of school a year later. Five neurologists, a speech pathologist and three psychiatrists failed to figure out the source of the problem, even as the girl suffered hallucinations, strange trances and severe learning problems.
