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Since the beginning of the 20th century, researchers have shown interests in the idea that infections might cause schizophrenia. For one thing, 54 percent of schizophrenics are born in the winter and spring, months which infections occur more often. And it is known that viruses can attack the brain and that slow-acting viruses can remain inactive for years before suddenly beginning to multiply and cause illness. One theory suggests that a slow-acting virus infects the fetus in the womb and that this infection causes changes in the brain that lead to schizophrenia in adolescence or early adulthood.