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Guillain-Bare Syndrome Fact Sheet

Causes of Guillain-Bare Syndrome

The exact cause of Guillain-Bare Syndrome has not yet been pinpointed. There is still no particular answer to why it happens to some people and not others since it has been clarified that it is not contagious and not inherited.

Guillain-Bare Syndrome usually appears days after one might have had a respiratory or digestive tract infection. Recently it has also been proven that it could attack after infection with the Zika virus or the COVID-19 virus [2]. The case of Guillain-Bare Syndrome is complicated because your immune system that ought only to attack invading organisms starts to attack the body’s nerves.