Authors : Omar Kattan

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 6 - June

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25jun398

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Abstract : This Scholarly Article will analyse the links between HAND (HIV- associated neurocognitive disease), herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1); neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease , glaucoma and their effects on how Canadian teens (specifically high school students) could potentially gain verbal and thought impairments or muscle paralysis (specifically vocal ones) by Teen sexual intercourse.

Keywords : ALS, Canada, Disease, HAND, HSV-1, Glaucoma, Teenagers.

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