Mono 2

Infectious Mononucleosis known popularly as "mono" is a infectious disease caused by the Epstien-Barr virus in a estimated 90 percent of cases ( EBV ) a member of the herpes family. The remaining cases are caused by a certain herpes virus, or cytomegalovirus. Mononucleosis is taken from the name of the blood's mononuclear cells, white blood cells ( B cells ) increase in the person blood stream when a person has this disease. It is estimated that seventy to eighty …

…chronic fatigue syndrome as it was once thought. Infectious Mononucleosis is usually a self limited, although sometimes prolonged, and often uncomfortable illness. While specific treatment is rarely necessary, the potential complications make it essential that the patients with this illness be under the care of a physician. Thanks to this disease scientists have provided themselves a lot of new information dealing with how EBV effects the body's cellsas monois the most common EBV there is.