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Article: 'Kissing' virus transmitted by teen sex; Major Edinburgh University study reveals that glandular fever is a sexually transmitted disease
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- September 8, 2002
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Glandular fever, the debilitating common illness nicknamed "the
kissing disease" because it is spread through saliva, is also
transmitted sexually, a major Scottish study has found.
More than 1000 students at Edinburgh University had blood samples
taken and were quizzed about their sexual history in order to find
out whether the disease is spread by sex as well as simply kissing.
Researchers found students with the highest number of sexual partners
were more likely to carry the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes
glandular fever.
The study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, shows
teenagers are at risk of catching glandular fever when they become
sexually active. The findings ...