Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry

Published Date: 13 Nov 2025

One of humanity's most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have found.

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