podcast: microbiologists discuss HSV causing AD hypothesis

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podcast: microbiologists discuss HSV causing AD hypothesis

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The This Week In Virology Episode 519 podcast has a discussion: "The TWiVomers review a potential role for herpes simplex virus type 1 as a cause of Alzheimer’s Disease, including the finding that amyloid-beta acts as an antiviral by enveloping virus particles."

The HSV/AD content starts at 5:30 and continues for about an hour. They discuss some of the recent papers on this topic, with a variety of tangents.

Note that these are microbiologists who have not done AD research. I found it interesting, but you probably won't find much practical content.
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