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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Magnate
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 2,280
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Alberto Ascherio has done numerous studies on MS and EBV. From what I have read he can't make up his mind if there is a correlation or not 
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content...ct/289/12/1533
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3703746
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j...TRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://archneur.highwire.org/cgi/con...tract/63/6/839
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3703706
I wonder about those of us who have not had the EBV or the antibodies but still have MS and those who have had EBV but not MS.
Remember, 95 percent of the population has had EB but 95 percent of the population does not have MS.
Although I do not discount EBV I also believe there is more going on.
If you google Alberto Ascherio you will find he looks at different risks for MS - smoking, Hepatitis B Vaccination, EBV, Vitamin D.
It looks like there are more questions than answers which has been the case for a long time.
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