The viruses that often bring us across illness, common cold and even polio may later on also affect your memory too, a team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota reported this on Monday.
In the words of Charles Howe, who revealed these findings:
Our study suggests that virus-induced memory loss could accumulate over the lifetime of an individual and eventually lead to clinical cognitive memory deficits.
According to an estimate every year about 1 billion people are infected by the viruses called picornaviruses and in the long run these viruses often cast a negative effect on our brain. Another virus known as ‘enterovirus 71’ is quite notorious to causing brain damage, which often leads to encephalitis, coma and sometimes even to death.
Therefore, it would not be right to underestimate the negative implications of these viruses.
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Via: msnbc