EBV Virus never leaving the body?
Answer:
Once you are infected with Epstein-Barr Virus (or cytomegalovirus, which can also cause mononucleosis), the virus is always present in your body. You cannot re-catch the virus yourself, as your body has made antibodies to it.
You cannot give another person the virus unless you are "shedding" (excreting it in your saliva). I am sorry but there is no single clear-cut answer to your question. Studies have found some individuals shed the virus in their saliva constantly for weeks or months; some shed occasionally for months; some shed the virus for several weeks only, then never again. You do not have to have symptoms to shed the virus.
Please do not be discouraged; the majority of people infected with EBV do not shed the virus often or very long after their infection. Most people are exposed to EBV or cytomegalovirus at some point in their lives; your boyfriend, and friends and family, may already have had it.
Please ask your physician the above questions as well. If he/she gives you a different answer, go with that one! Information on EBV shedding is not always clear-cut.
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