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Epstein-Barr virus found to trigger MS (Scientific American)
« on: January 29, 2022, 09:51:52 pm »

This article in Scientific American (January 13, 2022), entitled "Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger MS," presents findings indicating that Epstein-Barr virus, which 95% of the population is thought to have had, triggers MS. We still have to wonder why the other people who have supposedly had EBV don't get MS...but the research is probably significant because Scientific American doesn't usually waste space on unimportant material.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epstein-barr-virus-found-to-trigger-multiple-sclerosis/
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Re: Epstein-Barr virus found to trigger MS (Scientific American)
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2022, 05:59:59 am »
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Epstein-Barr may be "the leading cause of MS" (Medical News Today)
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2022, 09:28:41 pm »
Another article about this, in Medical News Today (February 3, 2022):


https://bit.ly/3seQ9JU
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Researchers strengthen link between EBV and risk of developing MS (MSIF)
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2022, 07:05:27 am »
More people weighing in on this--the MS International Federation and others--"Researchers strengthen the link between Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and the risk of developing MS":


https://www.msif.org/news/2022/01/21/researchers-strengthen-the-link-between-epstein-barr-virus-ebv-and-the-risk-of-developing-ms/




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Epstein-Barr virus and MS (Nature article)
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2022, 01:00:06 pm »
More on this.


From Nature Reviews Microbiology (August 5, 2022)--"Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis":


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00770-5
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An exchange about EBV & MS in Brain & Life letters section
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2022, 02:56:20 pm »
An exchange in the "Letters" section of Brain & Live (August-September 2022), which comes from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN):


https://www.brainandlife.org/letters/august-september-2022


It is captioned "Epstein-Barr and MS":


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As a scientist with a solid background in statistics, I thought the conclusion drawn in the Ask Your Neurologist column about the Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis (MS) (June/July 2022)—that the virus is the leading cause of MS—was not supported by the data in the Science study. I'm not questioning that the virus is an important variable in the development of MS, but the numbers in the study don't seem to add up to it being the leading cause. —Martha Woods, PhD, Denver, CO

THE EDITOR RESPONDS: The study in Science led by Dr. Alberto Ascherio provides compelling evidence of causality between the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis (MS) and suggests that cases of MS could be prevented by stopping EBV infection.
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(Abst.) Epstein-Barr virus as a leading cause of MS: Mechanisms and implications
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2023, 03:17:06 pm »
From PubMed (February 9, 2023)--"Epstein-Barr virus as a leading cause of multiple sclerosis: Mechanisms and implications":


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36759741/
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