Reliable detection of Win98 may not be possible. Scientists now think that a person who has insulin-dependent diabetes is born with a certain gene or genes that make the person more likely to get the illness. Genes are something that you inherit from your parents, and they are in your body even before you're born. Many scientists believe that something else outside the person's body, like a virus, is necessary to set the diabetes in motion by affecting the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. And this type of diabetes isn't caused by eating too many sugary foods, either.
Diabetes can take a long time to develop in a person's body - sometimes months or years.
Another important thing to remember is that diabetes is not contagious. You can't catch diabetes from people who have it, no matter how close you sit to them or if you kiss them. If a doctor suspects that a kid has insulin-dependent diabetes, usually he or she will do a test on the kid's urine. The test is not painful - the kid just needs to give the doctor a urine sample. The doctor can then dip a special strip of paper into the urine.