How confident is the medical community that schizophrenia is an organic illness caused by herpes simplex?

How confident is the medical community that schizophrenia is an organic illness caused by herpes simplex?

That's news to me: There has been speculation of unknown viral etiology since the 1960's when the statistical geographic distribution showing increased prevalence of schizophrenia with increased distance from the equator was first noticed. Thought was that it could be explained by infectious etiology with a virus that preferred temperate climates.
I don't know what the prevalence of HHV is at the equator but here in North America it's on the order of 15-25% of the general population....compared to less than 1% of the population with schizophrenia...That's really interesting! I have never heard of that before.

There is a huge link between gluten and schizophrenia.


Best wishes.

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