This Emperor Wears Many Clothes
There is a complexity that only presents in the Epstein-Barr Virus, and that is its ability to cause multiple chronic diseases, including autoimmune disorders as well as a long list of various types of cancer. Research is quite clear on many medical conditions as causative factors, while there are also hypotheses or associations with other conditions, with more studies needed.
Based on research available to date, I have compiled a list for your reference. It is not all inclusive. The more EBV I study and work with, the more I feel that this list will continue to expand as more research is done.
Research-Supported Medical Conditions Caused by or Associated with CAEBV (each reference is clickable)
I have worked with quite a few of these conditions, and it still surprises me how the vast EBV umbrella can be the missing link between various seemingly unrelated medical conditions that afflict people. This invisible umbrella otherwise confuses the clinicians, who focus on each individual disease, and causes anxiety, fear, confusion and disempowerment in people afflicted with it.
Take a look at this list and think through your time line. If you are a clinician, revisit the timelines of your clients and patients who have had these conditions and fail to respond to therapies because the underlying EBV, if not addressed, will cause the condition(s) to perpetuate.
All references are clickable and details about research behind each item are explained in more detail in my best-selling book The EBV Solution!
Autoimmune Disorders
Multiple Sclerosis (Harley et al., 2018); (Nociti et al., 2010); (Jons et al., 2015); (Wandinger et al., 2000)
Systemic Lupus (Lossius et al, 2012); (Dittfeld et al., 2016); (Poole et al., 2006)
Sjogren’s (Inoue et al., 2012); (Fox et al., 1992)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Eligio et al., 2010); (Klimas et al., 1990); (VanElzakker, 2013); (“Chronic fatigue syndrome: going viral?”, 2010)
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (Janegova et al., 2015); (Eligio et al., 2010)
Atherosclerosis/Acute Coronary Events (Binkley et al., 2013)
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) (Lunemann et al., 2010)
Autoimmune Hepatitis (Dittfeld et al., 2016); (Kang et al., 2009)
Type 1 Diabetes (Harvey et al., 2018); (Chikazawa et al., 1985); (Coppieters et al., 2012)
Scleroderma (Bilgin et al., 2015); (Farina et al., 2017)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, both Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease (Harley et al., 2018); (Berger & Gilad, 2014); (Yanai et al., 1999); (Gehlert et al., 2004); (Lopes et al., 2017); (Nissen et al., 2015)
Dermatomyositis (Chen et al., 2010)
Glomerulonephritis (Bakken, 1980); (Subat-Dezulovic et al., 2010)
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (Bitan et al, 2004); (Kim et al., 2016)
Guttate Psoriasis (Loh et al., 2012)
Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (Hsiao, 2000); (Steeper et al., 1989)
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (Harley, 2018); (Aslan, 2011)
Polymyositis (Tsunemine et al., 2013)
Psoriasis: Generalized Pustular Psoriasis (Jiyad et al., 2015)
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (Ngou et al., 1990); (Ngou et al., 1992)
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) (Hsiao, 2000); (Steeper et al., 1989)
Cancer
Hodgkin Lymphoma (Balfour et al., 2015)
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (Sugden, 2014)
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (Sugden, 2014)
Almost 10% of all Stomach Cancers (Iizasa, Nanbo, Nishikawa, Jinushi, & Yoshiyama, 2012)
Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma (Zhou et al., 2007)
Leiomyosarcoma (Jha et al., 2016)
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (Homayouni et al., 2017)
Malignant Lymphoma of the Thyroid (Matsubayashi et al., 1989)
Gastric Lymphoepitheliac Carcinoma (Coghill & Hildesheim, 2014)
B cell, NK/T cell Tumors, or Lymphoma (Coghill & Hildesheim, 2014)
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (Heslop, 2005)
Cutaneous Lymphoma (Novelli et al., 2009)
Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (C. L. Davis et al., 1995)
Colorectal Cancer (Fiorina et al., 2014)
Breast Cancer (Pai et al., 2017); (Hu et al., 2016)
Brain Inflammatory
Parkinson’s Disease (Woulfe et al., 2014) – hypothesis
Encephalitis (Eligio et al., 2010)
Meningitis (Eligio et al., 2010)
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (Eligio et al., 2010)
Cerebelitis (Eligio et al., 2010)
Myelitis (Eligio et al., 2010)
Cerebellar Ataxia (Wadhwa & Ghose, 1983)
Schizophrenia (Dickerson et al., 2018)
Gastrointestinal
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, both Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease – see above in autoimmune section
Dyspepsia, duodenal ulcer, or GERD, especially with co-infections like H. pylori (Buzas & Konderak, 2016)
Celiac – see above under autoimmune
Examples of Misdiagnoses/Mimicking Other Conditions
Lyme Disease- False Positive IgM for Early Borreliosis (Goossens et al., 1999)
Crohn’s Disease (Na et al., 2013)
Ulcerative Colitis (Karlitz et al., 2011)
Polymyositis (Uchiyama et al., 2005)
Other (Not All-Inclusive)
Acute Hepatitis (Thorley-Lawson et al., 2013)
Hypersensitivity to Mosquito Bites (Ishihara et al., 2000)
Genital Ulceration (Jerdan et al., 2013) (Halvorsen et al., 2005)
Oral and Mucocutaneous Ulcers (Attard et al., 2012)
Ocular: oculoglandular syndrome, conjunctivitis, dry eye, keratitis, uveitis, choroiditis, retinitis, papillitis, ophthalmoplegia (Matoba, 1990); Bilateral Chorioretinitis and Optic Neuritis (Peponis, et al., 2012)
Polymyositis (Tsunemine et al., 2013)
Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis (D. Y. Chen et al., 2010)
Recurrent Epistaxis (nose bleeds) and Severe Thrombocytopenia (low blood platelets) (Tilden, 2015)