Epstein-Barr virus is the likely cause of multiple sclerosis, research confirms.
A chronic disease of the central nervous system, MS involves an inflammatory attack on the myelin sheath and the axons it insulates. The disease affects 2.8 million people worldwide.
However, access to a"huge" database of more than 10 million active-duty US service personnel made this possible, he said. Only one of the 801 MS case patients had no serologic evidence of EBV. This individual may have been infected with the virus after the last blood collection, failed to seroconvert in response to infection, or was misdiagnosed, the investigators note.
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