Virus linked to obesity
It appears that a virus may explain why some people become obese, according to U.S. researchers
The virus, which is similar to those that respiratory and eye infections, caused animals to gain weight, researchers told Reuters:
"We're not talking about preventing all types of obesity, but if it is caused by this virus in humans, we want a vaccine to prevent this," said Nikhil Dhurandhar, an associate professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University System.
Dhurandhar also has shown that obese people were three times more likely to have been infected with Ad-36 than thin people in a large study of humans, according to Reuters.