(ME) outbreaks can be modelled as an infectious disease: a mathematical reconsideration of the Royal Free Epidemic of 1955, 2020, Waters et al

[Invisible Woman]

From @Sly Saint 's post #36 above

Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)
Now anyone who realizes that infectious mononucleosis is caused by the herpes
family virus, Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), and that the incubation period of this illness
is approximately 40 days, should have realized that you simply cannot have a rapidly
spreading viral epidemic with a virus with a latent period of 40 days.
Neither Dr Strauss nor Dr Holmes, senior government physicians, should have fallen
into such a trap

Erm.....didn't everyone play spin the bottle as teenagers or was it just an 80s thing where I grew up?

Things might've stopped at a good snog, but wasn't that all that was needed?

 

[Mithriel]

I got ill before I went in for that sort of thing. My admirer (now husband of 47 years) expressed his admiration of me by pelting me with rowan berries as i walked home from school.