High-risk behaviors and EBV

  Many patients exhibit symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, white spots on the oral mucosa, blurred vision, joint pain and diarrhea after high-risk behavior, and because of the lack of valid clinical evidence and laboratory tests, HIV infection cannot be diagnosed. The patients are often diagnosed as “AIDS-phobic” and call themselves “AIDS-negative”.  Recent blood tests conducted by the National CDC on some patients with “negative AIDS” did not reveal any unknown virus. In May this year, Academician Zhong Nanshan published the preliminary test results of “negative AIDS”, of the 60 “patients” investigated, all 60 were free of AIDS and 48 were pathogen-positive, of which 33 were tested for EBV. Among the patients tested, the detection rate of EBV was high, which is also known as kissing disease and can be transmitted through saliva without sexual contact.  The results of this study are very similar to the tests done at our hospital a few months ago. Of the four patients who requested a full pathogenic screening, four were free of HIV and two had current EBV infection. To paraphrase Academician Zhong Nanshan: Yin AIDS is not solely due to psychiatric factors, but psychiatric factors exacerbate the symptoms.  Note: EBV, also known as human herpesvirus type 4, is a double-stranded DNA virus that can only proliferate in B-lymphocytes, and the population is widely susceptible. Primary infection occurs in young adults, and about 50% develop infectious mononucleosis. Transmission is mainly through saliva, but can also be transmitted through blood transfusion. The main diseases caused by or associated with EBV infection are infectious mononucleosis, mucocutaneous leukoplakia, African childhood lymphoma (i.e., burkitt’s lymphoma), and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.