Emerging Diseases

Borna Disease Virus and Psychiatric Illness

Published in Blood Weekly, March 13th, 1995

A virus that causes brain disease in animals also infects people and may play a role in some psychiatric illnesses, a study suggests.

Scientists say they found genetic material from the virus in four psychiatric patients hospitalized in Germany who had previously shown more indirect evidence of infection.

Two patients had severe recurring depression, one had obsessive-compulsive disorder with alcohol abuse and the fourth had a mood disorder plus epileptic seizures.

Other studies have found indirect evidence of infection in people with depression, manic-depression or schizophrenia.

It is still not known whether...

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