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Patient Forum — Read through email discussions on topics relating to HHV-6 and various disease associations.

Videos Watch lectures from the 2008 International Conference on HHV-6 & 7 relating to the potential role of HHV-6 in various clinical conditions.

• HHV-6 & CFS  by Anthony Komaroff, MD, Harvard University, USA
• Viruses in CFS Symposium. See list of 17 presentations on viruses implicated in CFS from the symposiumheld in June 2008
• HHV-6 in CNS Disease by Steve Jacobson, PhD, NINDS/ NIH, USA
• HHV-6 in Transplant Disease by Tetsushi Yoshikawa, MD, Fujita Health University, Japan
• HHV-6 Post-Transplant Limbic Encephalitis by Ed Bromfield, MD, Harvard University, USA
• HHV-6B in Status Epilepticus and Epilepsy by Shlomo Shinnar, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, USA
• HHV-6 & HHV-7 in Febrile Status Epilepticus by Leon Epstein, MD, Northwestern University, USA
• Viral Myocarditis Overview, by Maximilian Buja, MD, University of Texas, USA
• HHV-6 Myocarditis, by Dirk Lassner, PhD, IKDT, Berlin, Germany
• HHV-6 Hypersensitivity Syndrome / DRESS and Autoimmune Disease by Yoko Kano, MD, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Japan
• HHV-6 & the Immune System by Paolo Lusso, MD, San Raffaele Institute, Italy           
• HHV-6 Causes Inflammatory Demyelination by Claude Genain, MD, California Pacific Medical Group, USA
• Active HHV-6A in a Genetic Subset of MS Patients by Concepción Núñez, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Spain