Mononucleosis Causes:

The main cause of mononucleosis or mono is the Epstein-Barr virus or EBV. When a person gets infected with EBV, he can expect to see symptoms of the ailment surface within a few hours of being infected. Sometimes, another virus like the cytomegalovirus causes a similar ailment. This virus also brings about similar symptoms and stays in the infected person’s body for the rest of his life.

• Most of the people who get this virus often get it at a young age and this is often due to indiscriminate kissing and relations with mostly anyone they like or take a liking to. Usually, the contraction of this disease happens during a person’s teen years to young adulthood due to the constant interaction youngsters have with others in the dating aspects.
• A lot of college students get this disease the first year they are in campus. Usually around 1 percent to 3 percent of students that are in college contract this ailment every year.
• A person may not know that the person they are kissing is a carrier of this ailment since the carrier usually becomes immune to it once they have experienced the ailment’s symptoms when they first got it.
  This is why this disease is so easy to spread and is easily gotten by anyone.