hair virus

[mehdi71000]

hi
is there a hair virus? that attakes the were the hair is produced?
thaks

[AstusAleator]

top google hit was pretty interesting...
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v110/ ... 0102a.html

here's an easier site to read
http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/alop ... areata.htm

I'll go ahead and stop googling there: key words to search for are "follicles" and "virus"

From what I could tell, viruses might not directly cause hair loss, but they may trigger an autoimmune reaction that causes hair-loss.