Virus Causing Glandular Fever Could also be Behind Multiple Sclerosis

by Gopalan on  November 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM General Health News
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John Pollard, Emeritus Professor of medicine at the University of Sydney, noted that the evidence about Epstein-Barr virus was still circumstantial, not proven. “So yes it is too far to go to say that anti-virals will cure MS or that vaccines will cure it. One can only go that far when this proposition is proven and it is by no means that at the moment,” he cautioned.

On the other hand previous studies have shown that people who have never been infected with EBV do not develop MS, and a study last year found the brains of MS patients had abnormally high numbers of EBV-infected cells.

And so one has to wait a while before the last word is said on the issue. Still the Queensland study does offer some hope.

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11/23/2008

i 2 had glandular fever as a young girl, i can see the connection. monica diownunder.



11/20/2008

About time!! I worked out years ago that the only 'stand out' (relative to my peers) feature of my medical history was contracting Glandular Fever in my mid teens.

Evidence arising in the literature supports my contention that the M.S. which afflicted me from 1985 (undiagnosed until 1992) was associated with my history of Glandular Fever.

A vaccine cannot save me now (23 years of M.S. has already irreversibly robbed me of my career and functionality since 1999) but medical researchers should actively pursue an Epstein Barr (Glandular Fever) vaccine to prevent thousands of potential victims contracting this diabolic disease which is hypothesized to be the precursor to several autoimmune conditions (M.S., Chronic Fatigue, Lupus etc.).


janlici(Guest)

01/10/2012

I completely agree with you! I had infectious mononucleosis as a senior in high school in 1974, optic neuritis in 1979, and a subsequent diagnosis of MS, also in 1979. It's now 2012, with no real consensus as to what causes multi[ple sclerosis.




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