About 90 percent of Mexicans have been infected at some point in their lives with Epstein-Barr virus, which causes the so-called disease Kiss, this because the virus causing the disease is transmitted through saliva, says Luis Arturo Eguiza, a doctor at Regional Hospital First of October, the ISSSTE.
Eguiza, professor in the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the School of Medicine IPN says that individuals who have had the disease have intermittent shedding of virus for life, and the presentation of the disease depends on the age .
Pharyngitis is one of the signs in preschool. While teenagers and young adults, in addition to strep throat, skin rash can present.
Initially mentioned manifestations are minor and relate to low-grade fever, fatigue, headache and nausea. After five days the temperature rise increases, difficulty eating, sore throat, swollen lymph glands, skin, and muscle aches yellow color appears, among other symptoms.
Ensures that the most important complications are neurological and haematological as low platelets, low white blood cell production in the bone marrow, pneumonia and airway obstruction.
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