Keith W. Taylor ● Heikki Hyöty
Antonio Toniolo ● Arie J. Zuckerman
Editors
2013
While the term “the global epidemic of diabetes” is used frequently both by the popular media and in the medical literature, it is not used in the context of infection. The late Keith Taylor re fl ects on the historical background of the relationship between viruses and diabetes noting that the association between mumps and diabetes was described in the middle of the nineteenth century, but it was not until 1927 that the Norwegian Army physician Edvard Gundersen published a paper in the Journal of Infectious Diseases entitled “Is diabetes of infectious origin?”. The subsequent history of virus infection and diabetes in humans and animals is described eloquently in the Chap. 1 of this book, which contains precisely what is stated in the title; that is, information on diabetes and viruses.
Diabetes and Viruses
