{"id":225181,"date":"2025-11-15T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-trace-lupus-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-viruses"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:11:56","slug":"scientists-trace-lupus-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-trace-lupus-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Trace Lupus to One of The World\u2019s Most Common Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-trace-lupus-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-viruses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s most common viral infections could underlie virtually every case of lupus, according to a recent study providing the strongest evidence yet for a link.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by scientists at Stanford University, has found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epstein%E2%80%93Barr_virus\">Epstein-Barr virus<\/a> (EBV) could be the trigger behind the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lupus.org\/understanding-lupus\">cruel mystery<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>EBV is the pathogen that causes \u2018kissing disease\u2019 (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/mononucleosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350328\">mononucleosis<\/a>), and according to the new findings, it can directly infect and reprogram specific immune cells, potentially driving the onset of the chronic autoimmune disease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/root-cause-of-lupus-found-in-a-tug-of-war-over-a-critical-white-cell\">systemic lupus erythematosus<\/a> \u2013 better known as simply lupus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s most common viral infections could underlie virtually every case of lupus, according to a recent study providing the strongest evidence yet for a link. The research, led by scientists at Stanford University, has found that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could be the trigger behind the \u2018cruel mystery\u2019 EBV is the pathogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225181","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=225181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}