When I went to the site for the research article it said content not found any suggestions ?
Linda

I didn't find a problem with the link Linda, but here it is again, just in case.
http://nro.sagepub.com/content/early...381531.full.pd

When trying to access a link, you do need to go back to the original as links showing in quoted texts sometimes don't work.

If you're still having trouble, try inserting the title of this thread into your web browser. You should get it up that way.

a link to the abstract, full version is a pfd http://nro.sagepub.com/content/early...81531.abstract

My MS followed Mono and I also suspect a link.

Add me to the EBV=MONO=MS club..

Have they come up with anything to conteract it and turn MS around?

I never had EBV and the only contact I had was when my daughter caught it at age 17. I was diagnosed just after her birth, so I'd already had the disease a minimum of 17 years by then.....BUT..... I did get rubella about 8 years pre diagnosis, and that was another virus they threw around back then (in the 70's)

I haven't found anything that says so Sal. I think those of us who already have lesions are stuck with them and the ongoing hassles they do and will cause.

What is good about today's research and the products of that research, is the fact the maybe our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren might be spared what we've gone through.... and for me it's been 33 years of symptoms, consultations and probing. I didn't do the injections but many others have, so that's years of sticking yourself with something you don't know for a fact will help you, but I do believe you have to put your trust in something.

Unless I accidentally walk in front of a bus, then I'll probably have to put up with more of the same for another 10, 20 or more years to come. I'd like for my offspring to be spared the same.

what i don't understand is that over 95% of the general population has had the EBV.....so of course most MS patients have had it also, it is just that common.

I have never been diagnosed with EBV....but, many times in by busy life, I've suffered through illness because "moms don't get sick"!!! So who knows... I don't know if it would have been possible to have mono and just eventially get over it...or if it would have gotten be down so much I would have HAD to go to the doctor for it????

When I got hit with mono, I got hit very hard.

2 weeks bedridden. I still remember my Mom had to help me the few steps to the washroom, and I spent the majority of the time sleeping. Even 30 minutes out of bed was too painful and fatigue inducing to bear.

I know folks who've been the complete opposite though, just feeling 'unwell' for several months before being informed it was mono, etc.

Daisy is right, as far as I remember from statistics read. The vast majority of all people in America (can't speak for abroad, probably the same) have endured EBV, sometimes referred to as "mononucleosis". I had it in college, a typical place to get it. Later, it
was shown to have left a signature on a viral screen test.

Nevertheless it could be one of the triggers for MS, but most people fight it off and don't get MS from it. I remember I had a big boil on my neck from it, but when I got over it, it was gone for good.

And I had MS symptoms before I had EBV.

I hear you Mariel.

EBV has been tossed around for 3 decades now (or more) so I tend to believe it IS a virus that sets the disease off. Maybe it's not EBV, maybe it's not Rubella... nor Distemper, or any of the other viruses that they've targetted over the years, but I think from this and many similar articles, we'll eventually have to accede that a virus of some kind, is behind the trigger.

Maybe it is the EBV......maybe not, but it's good to know that all of these preceptors that we've heard about for decades now, are now being fully investigated.