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Are There Any Vaccines Developed Against Epstein-Barr Virus?

Posted on Tue, 15 Sep 2015

Question: Hi my name is XXXXXXX curently on disability ok I been doing research for years on the mono virus and keep find out that the virus that causes it is related to many other illnesses one is epstein-barr virus and chichenpox herpes shingles and many others. and i been diagnose with fibormiagia and a host of other problems i had Mono for over a year when i was 20 and had jundic almost as long and about all the common child hood deiases and in a lot of and memery and eyes site muscle and joint pain. is there a vaccine like for shingles that could help?
I i'm now 53 and every day is tough

Answered by Dr. Tushar Kanti Biswas (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Infectious mononucleosis (IM) and vaccine against EBV

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thank you for your query. I can understand your concerns.

While some patients have malaise and fatigue that persist for weeks or months after infectious mononucleosis (IM), persistent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is not a cause of chronic fatigue syndrome or fibormiagia (muscle pain etc) .

Hepatitis(jaundice) ,uveitis, are rare complications associated with acute EBV infection.
Most cases resolve without neurologic sequelae (memory loss).

There is no vaccine developed against Epstein-Barr virus as yet.
A vaccine directed against the major EBV glycoprotein reduced the frequency of IM but did not affect the rate of asymptomatic infection in a phase 2 trial.

Regards

Dr. T.K. Biswas M.D. XXXXXXX

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad

Follow up: Dr. Tushar Kanti Biswas (6 days later)

So basically you can not help me with any of my problems, I've done a lot of research on the many ailments I been though even though they don't link Fibromyalgia to these other disease a lot which again still coming back to be related EBV virus or something related too it. I'm really tired of just being treated for the symptoms of problems when their related or at least several studies say they are.
I wish you could give me better feed back i've had talk to a few doctors that believe that Fibromyalgia could be cause by the same viruses, and the have been testing some vaccines for herpes or sys EBV could be the main cause. or i'm just wasting my time talking to you cause the say they don't know what causes it, also their was a bad batches of multiple type of vaccine given to children that was infected with a strain of bacteria and or virus that wasn't weaken infected up to approximately 30 million people when they have to have it just to be able to go to school the government admitted to this which was given in the late 60's and early 70's Help or i'm i just wasting my time getting worse all the time.

Answered by Dr. Tushar Kanti Biswas (10 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Fibromyalgia (FM) vis a vis Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) & EBV

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thank you for your query. I can understand your concerns.

Patients with Fibromyalgia (FM) have an increased prevalence of other syndromes associated with pain and fatigue, including chronic fatigue syndrome.

Most patients report an infection (usually a flu like illness
or infectious mononucleosis) as the trigger of their fatigue.

However, no differences in Epstein-Barr virus load and immunologic reactivity were found between individuals who developed CFS and those who did not.

Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may have titers of antibody
to EBV that are elevated but are not significantly different from those
in healthy EBV-seropositive adults.

Hence persistent EBV infection has not been linked with either Fibromyalgia (FM) or Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

Regards

Dr. T.K. Biswas M.D.
Mumb

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj