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__**Can you get mononucleosis "The Kissing Disease" more than once**__
If you already had infectious mononucleosis, or mono, technically speaking this disease should only happen once in your life, but sometimes there happen to be scenarios where someone could have mono symptoms more than once and it even could be mono. Why?

Well, although the Epstein-Barr virus is usually thought of as the official cause of mono, and one should only get the EBV infections only once, many other viruses can cause similar mono-like illness, including CMV, adenovirus, Toxoplasma gondii, HIV, rubella, hepatitis A, human herpesvirus-6, and human herpesvirus-8. So even after having mono, your child could later get a mono-like illness with the same symptoms as mono, including fever, sore throat, and swollen glands, that is caused by another virus.

Another reason that your child might be diagnosed with mono a second time is that your child was previously misdiagnosed. The monospot test for mono can give false positive results (the test is positive even when your child really doesn't have mono) up to 10 percent of the time. So your child could have had mono symptoms and a positive monospot, but his infection could have been caused by another virus, unless the results were confirmed by positive EBV titers

Also, some children are given a simple clinical diagnosis of mono, without any testing, so you can't be sure that they had mono in the first place. Or they may have been diagnosed with mono after having a suspicious complete blood count, which is not specific for EBV and mono.