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So according to WHO, 67% of people older than 50 have Herpes 1: https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-s...

How do you account for the disparity between the massive infection rate and the relatively low Alzheimer's rate?



They might not be old enough for it to matter yet, and we might see numbers approaching that 67% as people live longer.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-causes-alzheimers-diseas...

"Older age does not cause Alzheimer’s, but it is the most important known risk factor for the disease. The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease doubles about every 5 years beyond age 65. About one-third of all people age 85 and older may have Alzheimer's disease." (emphasis mine)

Perhaps if we beat cancer and cardiovascular diseases etc and see human lifespans reaching 100+ years old, we'll see close to 67% of people at that age get Alzheimer's.


Maybe it's like prostate cancer in that it changes so slowly that often something else kills you long before the prostate cancer has a chance to? [0]

[0]https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/understanding-prostate...


I don't think one should extrapolate this study on a lab-grown human-like tissue to mammals like rodents in the first place. Extrapolation to humans is even more bizzare.


The article covers this question, they think it is just a factor. A funnel towards Alzheimer's that a lot of people still end up getting to the bottom of.




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