Interesting. I’m surprised they haven’t found this discovery before now. I remember driving home with mom from the doctor’s office at around 10 years old after having been diagnosed with “Mono” and I felt anxiety because I knew my suspicious mother was thinking I must have been kissing boys (of course I had not) but when she told me you get it through kissing I was pretty confused. My daughter also contracted it and with her it took a long time to resolve.
I think we are in a new age of discovery of how different viri may affect us in the long term,
much less the fact that they can affect the genome of our immune system
and may impact even our children.
As stated in the article, this is only the beginning of the study involving genome, DNA, RNA, and virus interaction.
My daughter was diagnosed with mono in December. She was so sick and they couldn’t figure out exactly what was wrong. She had raging fevers, rashes and terrible fatigue. Evidently, mono is a lot trickier to deal with in adults(she’s 47) but she’s finally pretty much back to her old self. Due to the fevers, she’s been losing her hair which is just one more crisis she’s had to deal with but the dr. assures her it’s temporary.
You can also contract EBV from kissing girls.