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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Deep South
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Deep South
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Epstein-Barr and Multiple Sclerosis: New Research
Researchers have released new findings that support a connect between multiple sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr virus. What is interesting (and what researcher Alberto Ascherio at Harvard discovered) is that, in a sample of 305 members of the armed services who were diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, 100% of them were infected with the Epstein-Barr virus before diagnosis (compared to 30% of over 600 other service members whose blood was examined and were similar to the 305 in age and other factors (though they had not been diagnosed with MS).
http://ms.about.com/b/2009/05/25/eps...earch.htm?nl=1
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05-27-2009, 11:54 AM
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