Virus 'triggers child diabetes'

[dipsydoodle]

A common virus may be the trigger for the development of many cases of diabetes, particularly in children, UK researchers have reported.

Signs of enteroviruses were found in pancreatic tissue from 60% of children with type 1 diabetes, but in hardly any children without the disease.

They also found that 40% of adults with type 2 diabetes had signs of the infection in insulin-producing cells.

The study published in Diabetologia raises the possibility of a vaccine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7926026.stm

[pleah]

1. K&R

[trotsky]

2. Whoa. This would be a huge breakthrough. n/t

[juno jones]

3. K&R! n/t

[semillama]

4. A possible vaccination for diabetes, especially type 1? That is tremendous

I really hope this turns out to be something. It would make a significant change in health care costs and quality of life for so many people.

[mzmolly]

7. Unless the virus can create the same immune response that leads

to diabetes to begin with?

It's a great discovery none the less.

[SidDithers]

5. Recommended...nt

Sid

[Scout]

6. have you cross posted this to any other forums? n/t

[dipsydoodle]

8. Nope.

The mods have a habit of of moving stuff to correct forums so I thought I might as well post it direct here. It was actual news in the UK at this time yesterday and I noticed this morning UK time the BBC had posted it in their health news section.

[xchrom]

9. +11

:applause:

[GeorgeGist]

10. 'Maybe' is an important word to ...

edit out of the headline.

[dipsydoodle]

12. The methodology

seems almost bullet proof and I hope they're right in their finding. So yes - maybe they shouldn't have said maybe.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. How would one decide between autism and diabetes?

:sarcasm:

David

[myrna minx]

13. This is really exciting. My coworker has two children

with type 1 and it' been a long journey for her and her family. This is really a great breakthrough.