Victorian Statutory Requirement Statutory notification not required. It is an acute viral infection affecting mainly young adults. In young children the disease is mild or asymptomatic.
Duration is from one to several weeks.
The disease is rarely fatal. A chronic form is suggested as one of the causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A syndrome resembling infectious mononucleosis clinically and haematologically may be caused by herpesvirus 6, cytomegalovirus or toxoplasmosis. Public Health Signicance and Occurrence Glandular fever is most commonly seen in high school and university students. About 50 per cent of those infected will develop the disease that is spread by close, personal contact.