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Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by anoncoward111 »

astura wrote: post #6
anoncoward111 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3

"Reader Mode" is built into Firefox. (Dunno about chrome, I don't use that) There is also https://outline.com

You have no idea how helpful this is to me right now. I am in Chile on the most abominably slow pre-paid cell phone connection. I'm reading this from the mountains as we speak

Thank you so much

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by ShabbosGoy »

pc86 wrote: post #19
craftyguy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Classic example of correlation != causation.

Please quote from the linked article where they imply causation.

In the article, tbey only mention that HHV-6 and HHV-7 virus levels are increased. Don’t really see where causation is implied at all. It’s the same with elevated levels amyloid beta, only one piece of the puzzle.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by tneuont34ntent »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #4
polskibus wrote: post #2

Text only version https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621908340

Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3

Safari's "Reader Mode" also does this.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by anoncoward111 »

tneuont34ntent wrote: post #23
anoncoward111 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3

Safari's "Reader Mode" also does this.

Thank you, unfortunately I don't have an iToy anymore, the battery exploded :*(

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by wsc981 »

tneuont34ntent wrote: post #23
anoncoward111 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, my god. Is there a browser extension or a third party website or anything out there that does this for all websites? I haven't had much luck, but that's partially because some sites have chosen to make themselves unusable without javascript enabled. NPR, thank you for this subdomain <3

Safari's "Reader Mode" also does this.

You can also automatically enable "Reader Mode" for a single domain or all domains by pressing the reader mode button for like 2 seconds. Which is something I just recently discovered. I like this feature a lot on my iPhone. It can also be automatically enabled on macOS in the same way.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by pc86 »

ShabbosGoy wrote: post #22
pc86 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please quote from the linked article where they imply causation.

In the article, tbey only mention that HHV-6 and HHV-7 virus levels are increased. Don’t really see where causation is implied at all. It’s the same with elevated levels amyloid beta, only one piece of the puzzle.

That was my point - the article doesn't imply any causation, so the "correlation != causation" meme is an irrelevant criticism.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by craftyguy »

theothermkn wrote: post #17
craftyguy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Classic example of correlation != causation.

> In other news, Alzheimer's patients breathe oxygen and drink water. Beware! This very remark undermines your snark. We clearly would not look at 'breathes air" or 'drinks water,' precisely because these are factors that are common in the population between those who do and those who do not develop Alzheimer's. It is, in fact, the very fact that the factors that the grandparent mentioned "don't belong in the brain"…

> precisely because these are factors that are common in the population

Herpes is also extremely common in the human population (cold sores, anyone?) so I fail to see how this somehow proves your point.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by chasil »

virusduck wrote: post #9

This is not surprising. At least one study [1] showed 85% of people's brains are PCR-positive for at least HHV-6. It is also important to keep in mind that herpesviruses have evolved with us (and many other species) and in some ways are considered part of our normal flora. They may also play an important role in the proper development of our immune system. The data in this paper is suggestive (and complicated!!), but…

People commonly take acyclovir for simplex 1 & 2. Does that suppress this virus? Can any of these common drugs pass the blood-brain barrier?

Might other herpes strains be involved? Zoster (chicken pox)? Epstein-Barr (mono)? Kaposi's Sarcoma/HHV8?

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by swsieber »

craftyguy wrote: post #27
theothermkn wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In other news, Alzheimer's patients breathe oxygen and drink water. Beware! This very remark undermines your snark. We clearly would not look at 'breathes air" or 'drinks water,' precisely because these are factors that are common in the population between those who do and those who do not develop Alzheimer's. It is, in fact, the very fact that the factors that the grandparent mentioned "don't belong in the brain"…

> precisely because these are factors that are common in the population Herpes is also extremely common in the human population (cold sores, anyone?) so I fail to see how this somehow proves your point.

But Herpes in the brain isn't common in the human population.

Re: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

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Post by mfringel »

craftyguy wrote: post #15
dkural wrote: post #10

People with Alzheimer's seem to have more things in their brain that shouldn't be there than normal. Past findings include types of immune cells that shouldn't be there, various yeast, other types of virus etc. It's not clear if all those are there due to the blood-brain barrier loosing structural integrity, or those cause Alzheimer's in the first place.

Classic example of correlation != causation.

"Correlation's not causation"

Is not some magical incantation

With just a word or two of proof

We all get closer to the truth

- mfringel the rhetorical safety officer

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