Research just published has proposed that the Epstein -Barr virus infection is essential for the development of multiple sclerosis.

The author, Professor Pender, also states that sunlight and Vitamin D can keep MS under control by increasing certain cells available to control the EBV infection.

He also makes predictions that MS could be successfully treated and even prevented, by controlling any EBV infections.

Here is a link to the research article for those interested:

http://nro.sagepub.com/content/early...381531.full.pd...

I've read in reports that 100% of MS patients tested have the EBV...I'm surprised the medical profession doesn't routinely test MS patients for this...

Makes sense to me. For years after I got mono I said it was like I never recovered from it. This was back when to me MS was some mysterious disease the woman from Beach Blanket Bingo had. In hindsight, I am absolutely convinced that my mono infection was what triggered my MS.

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????