Hacker News Reader

Not sure about HSV1 but there was a lot of press recently about the discover of herpes strains, HHV6A and HHV7 in alzheimer's patients brains. As discussed here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591

Only sort of fringe, a few comments link to Derek Lowe's blog post which posits an infectious cause (a different strain of herpes iirc): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444515

I believe you would expect a correlation between percentage of population with HSV1 and percentage with Alzheimer’s in each country. No such correlation exists.

Some of the theories seem to hinge on HSV1 and ApoE4 (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4) both being necessary to substantially drive up the risk. One example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745800...

I don't currently have access, but it'd be nice if someone who did could crack into the statistics of some of these.