Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!fuller From: fuller@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bio Subject: questions about diabetes Message-ID: <2109@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 17:13:36 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2109 Posted: Mon Mar 5 17:13:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:52:55 EST Lines: 21 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? Answer anywhere you want to Bill Fuller {akgua,decvax}!mcnc!ecsvax!fuller