A Diabetes virus has been found to be a possible cause of some children and adults who develop Diabetes Mellitus. Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which the Immune System attacks the beta cells in the pancreas, leaving them unable to produce sufficient-or any, levels of insulin. Researchers have always speculated that type 1 Diabetes was the result of an infection, illness, or virus, but they never had data on a specific virus and Diabetes being linked until recently.

A Pathologist in the United Kingdom has been studying the effects of Diabetes on numerous patients post-mortem. He collected tissue samples from the pancreases of children who died due to type 1 Diabetes and compared them to tissues samples from children who did not have Diabetes. He found that 60% of the children with Diabetes all had a common link. Each child had the same family of viruses, called …