I wanted to know did you have to get mono from another person and if so how did that other person get mono. Is it some flu virus that causes mono what causes it.
2006-12-01 05:23:25 · 11 answers · asked by luckyboi1223 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
You don't have to get mono from another person but tis how it's most often spread. That is why mono is called the kissing disease. Mono is caused by it's over virus that invades the throat the lymph nodes nad you can have it for months and have no idea. The syptoms are usually flu like, but not always at the onset, and people lose wieght and they are just pale and sickyl without knowing what is wrong. Mono is a shared disease, people get it from other people. If you are in school and you hang out with your friends a lot, shared contact like drinks, food, anything that goes from mouth to mouth is contacting and can cause mono. That is why it is most common in teeagers and school aged children.
2006-12-01 05:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by snowbaby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mononucleosis (often called "mono") is an infection caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. Signs of mono include fever, sore throat, headaches, white patches on the back of your throat, swollen glands in your neck, feeling tired and not feeling hungry.
Mono is not spread as easily as some other viruses, such as the common cold. The mono virus is found in saliva and mucus. It is usually passed from one person to another through kissing, although it may rarely be passed in other ways, such as coughing. Signs of mono usually develop 4 to 6 weeks after you're exposed to the virus. Generally, people only get mono once. It's most common among people 15 to 35 years old.
2006-12-01 13:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by tia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mono is a kinda a flu and kinda a virus it just depends on the types that person has. Its spead by human contact like kissing or physical touching.
2006-12-01 13:26:53 · answer #3 · answered by maeseason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mono is generally caused from allowing a strep throat infection to continue without treating it.
When my dh and I were dating, he had a sore throat for weeks and never went to the doc. He ended up with mono. I, however, never got it.
I believe I had mono when I was a freshman in high school, but my country doc never checked for it, just kept giving me antibiotics. Never been so sick in all my life! It started a strep or a tonsil infection of some sort.
2006-12-01 13:29:12 · answer #4 · answered by Sherral 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mono is a diease transmitted by the saliva of a person. SO, the only way you could get mono would be by kissing someone or by drinking after them...they have to have to get mono, someone else has to have it first.
2006-12-01 13:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by Elbert G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mono is spread by person to person contact, through saliva (on hands or toys, or by kissing ).It is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus,which is a member of the herpes virus family.It is a STD.
2006-12-01 14:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by tresses 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from kissing someone who has it or drinking from a glass that someone with mono drank from.
2006-12-01 13:26:03 · answer #7 · answered by Billys girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont even know what mono is
2006-12-01 13:24:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a virus passed thru saliva (kissing, drinking after another person, etc)
2006-12-01 13:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by jenivive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not YOU again. Did your other ID get deleted because you just kept posting this?
2006-12-01 13:26:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋