‘Harmless’ virus might trigger Parkinson’s disease, researchers say

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson’s disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson’s, but not in any brains from healthy people, researchers report in the journal JCI Insight.

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