Original Antigenic Sin

[Frog42]

Some of this is over my head but it seems to offer a possible explanation for why we have MS.

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I had mononeucleosis as a teenager. Epstein-Barr virus has been established as one of the diseases that lays the groundwork for MS.

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I didn't visit the old board often enough to know if this had been posted here already. Hope someone else finds it interesting.

[agate]

I don't remember these articles in particular, and the old board threads aren't so easy to get at any more.

There were occasional discussions of Epstein-Barr virus.

Here is a link to something I happened to find recently from PubMed, an abstract of an article, "Epstein-Barr virus in the multiple sclerosis brain: A controversial issue..." in Brain, August 16:

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[Frog42]

I guess I'm not keeping up with recent developments then. Nevertheless, they still don't know the cause(s). Sigh.

[agate]

It looks to me as if the articles you posted are very helpful and timely. The idea of a link between Epstein-Barr link and MS is still a very hot topic, I think.

I'm hoping to understand the first article better after I read it over a few more times.