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Subject: questions about diabetes
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Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 17:13:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  5 17:13:36 1984
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Ok.  Here's my contribution for uneducated question of the week.

There's a lot of diabetes in my family, both of the juvenile and
adult onset varieties.  Awhile back I thought that juvenile diabetes
was inherited and adult diabetes was caused by environmental factors
(eating too much sugar).  Then I read in Scientific American that
just the reverse was true.  (Sorry, I can't provide a reference.)
Now I read in the last issue of Newsweek that juvenile diabetes is
inherited (or at least the susceptibility thereof) with no mention
of the adult onset variety.  Obviously SciAm is the more
authoritative source, but maybe thinking on this has changed in
the interim.  Can anyone provide me with the straight scoop?
Does either variety of this disease occur in animals other than human?
I am also interested in the role of viruses in these diseases.
Have such viruses been identified?  Could the discovery of such
viruses lead to a vaccine for diabetes?  Is the plural of virus
"vira"?  Would these questions be more appropriate in net.med?

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			Bill Fuller
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