IL6 and Kaposi's sarcoma: KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS) is another complication of KSHV caused mainly by high levels of viral interleukin-6 (vIL6) or human IL-6 (hIL-6) and high viral load has been found in both HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected KSHV patients (Uldrick et al., 2010).