Epstein-Barr Virus implicated as a cause of MS

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 15:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) increases by many folds following infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). This finding implicates EBV as a contributory cause to multiple sclerosis.read more

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