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Kunal Sood, MD on Instagram: "New research suggests Epstein-Barr virus may play a bigger role in autoimmune disease than previously understood. The study found that EBV can infect a small subset of autoreactive B cells and reprogram them to act as antigen-presenting cells, which can activate helper T cells and amplify an autoimmune cascade. Lupus patients in the study had far more EBV-infected B cells than healthy controls, offering a clearer mechanistic link between the virus and disease develo