{"id":204060,"date":"2025-01-19T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-discover-common-virus-could-be-causing-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2025-01-19T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:28:18","slug":"scientists-discover-common-virus-could-be-causing-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-discover-common-virus-could-be-causing-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover common virus could be causing Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-common-virus-could-be-causing-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosmic voids, which act as bubbles in the cosmic web, help us read the universe better.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have found a link between a common virus and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease, which is the most common type of dementia, is a condition that affects the brain, makes changes in it that cause problems with memory, thinking, and behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.14401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Journal of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a>, researchers discovered CMV, a type of herpesvirus, which often infects individuals during childhood. While the virus usually remains dormant after the initial infection, it stays in the body for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic voids, which act as bubbles in the cosmic web, help us read the universe better. Researchers have found a link between a common virus and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Alzheimer\u2019s disease, which is the most common type of dementia, is a condition that affects the brain, makes changes in it that cause problems with memory, thinking, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}