•Infections. Certain viral or bacterial infections can cause peripheral neuropathy, including Lyme disease, shingles (varicella-zoster), Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis C, leprosy, diphtheria and HIV.

Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...s/con-20019948

I mentioned it on a separate thread due to discussions cause by this post
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread204387.html

Is also becoming well known that Lyme disease mimics MS, feel free to google, information plentiful on that. Lyme disease is becoming known as the 'great pretender" because it mimics so many other conditions that ppl are misdiagnosed with. Only 50% of ppl bitten by a tick have a bullseye. I had it, never saw a tick or bullseye... or, found out in thread mentioned above with a referenced article, sleeping with another person who has been known to have lyme disease can give it to you too. Of course, any baby born to lyme disease infected mother is going to have lyme disease.