<story><title>Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s</title><url>http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>A good overview of different hypotheses for Alzheimer&amp;#x27;s was published in Nature a couple months ago [1]. I recommend reading this before jumping on the latest HN theory. This article includes evidence for and against HSV.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s</title><url>http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>My former neurology teacher was working on finding a genetic model that could predict Alzheimer&amp;#x27;s. They said that work was going well. However they were also finding strong evidence for these infection models. which seems to contradict their work. The disease couldn&amp;#x27;t be both hereditary and infectious. Their answer were that possible we were looking at at least two different diseases that just so happened to attack the same neurons, and hence produce the same symptoms.</text></comment>