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A very common virus may be the trigger for multiple sclerosis:
Evidence is mounting that a garden-variety virus that sometimes causes mono in teens is the underlying cause of multiple sclerosis, a rare neurological disease in which the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, stripping away protective insulation around nerve cells, called myelin.
It's still unclear how exactly the virus—the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—may trigger MS and why MS develops in a tiny fraction of people. About 95 percent of adults have been infected with EBV, which often strikes in childhood. MS, meanwhile, often develops between the ages of 20 and 40 and is estimated to affect around one million people in the US. Yet, years of evidence have consistently pointed to links between the childhood virus and the chronic demyelinating disease later in life.
With a study published today in Science, the link is stronger than ever, and outside experts say the new findings offer further "compelling" evidence that EBV isn't just connected to MS; it's an essential trigger for the disease. The study found, among other things, that people had a 32-fold increase in risk of developing MS following an EBV infection in early adulthood.
"It's a great paper," Dr. Ruth Dobson, a preventive neurology professor and MS expert at Queen Mary University of London, told Ars in an interview. "The evidence just adds up and adds up and adds up... Whilst we don't understand biologically how EBV drives MS and we think about causation theories, really we have the rest of the building blocks in place," said Dobson, who was not involved in the new Science study. "It's another piece of evidence that really solidifies this theory" that EBV triggers MS.
[...] For the study, researchers led by Harvard neuroepidemiologist Dr. Kjetil Bjornevik mined an exceptionally rich repository of blood serum samples taken from a cohort of more than 10 million active-duty military personnel between 1993 and 2013.
[...] In the cohort, there were 801 members who developed MS and had banked up to three serum samples prior to their diagnosis. This gave the researchers the unique opportunity to go back in time and examine serum samples from MS patients years before they developed the disease. The researchers could also compare samples from the 801 MS patients to samples from 1,566 cohort members who did not develop MS and could serve as controls.
Of the 801 people who developed MS, all but one had antibodies indicating an EBV infection by the time of their MS diagnosis. And most of those EBV infections occurred earlier in their lives. At the start of the 20-year period, only 35 of the 801 MS patients started out as negative for EBV. By the end of the period, 34 of those 35 developed anti-EBV antibodies—aka seroconverted—prior to their diagnosis.
Journal Reference:
Kjetil Bjornevik, Marianna Cortese, Brian C. Healy, et al. Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis, Science (DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @09:45PM (2 children)
It may or may not lead to effective treatment. But in the industry, there are already indications that the various EBV vaccine programs may have more money available soon and a study like this only helps. I don't mean to sound callous or dismissive but better than treating MS is making sure that nobody has to worry about it in the future.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:48AM (1 child)
Jews have kept the medical industry stagnant (for example, 5-year cancer prognoses) since the '60's. Jews are attracted to medicine because it allows them to write their own paychecks while keeping people sick, as you can see from the vaccine fiascoes, and yet doesn't require physical labor. What the Affordable Care Act really did was stick a bunch of fat lazy Jews in newly-created and totally redundant administrator positions, to leech from the private system just as dead weight leeches from the public employment system.
That's not including that the Jews are accelerating their plans to destroy America for Chinese profit. The more viruses they can manufacture and release, the more Goyim get sick and dependent on the system. Your lives will become rentals, where you die if you don't pay the monthly subscription. Jews, of course, get a front-of-the-line pass to all the harvested organs and baby blood, so no problem for them there.
There is a good reason why the Jews are getting more and more desperate, and that is because Goyim are undergoing a mass-awakening as to the ramifications of Judeo-Communism and its ties to globalism. The cat's out of the bag, the toothpaste out of the tube -- and what we see are the messy results of Jewry trying to stuff the toothpaste back in the tube with censorship and their embedded crooks placed into power structures.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @08:29PM