NEW YORK (Jul 22, 1996 09:35 a.m. EDT) -- A virus that makes horses and
cats act depressed has been found in people for the first time, boosting
the evidence that it may play a role in human depressive disorders,
scientists say.
It was recovered from two patients with manic depression and another with
chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder in Germany, plus a patient in the
United States who had major depression and chronic fatigue syndrome,
German scientists report.
The so-called Borna disease virus may trigger depressive episodes in
people who are already vulnerable to major depression or manic-depression,
said researcher Liv Bode of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.
Scientists hope to find drugs to attack the vir
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