Hi hawkgirl--
this study was published on Jan 4th. I though of you when i read it. An investigation of post mortem ms brains that did find a virus in post mortem ms brains, that raises the possibility that some MS is actually caused by a virus and not an autoimmune reaction..but caused by a virus in a way not thought of before.
History: ms has long been speculated to be a combination of genetic susceptibility & some kind of environmental trigger that starts the auto immune reaction.
the eb virus has long been suspected as the trigger but has never been proven to be the trigger. the virus that causes mono, most people have been exposed to it, a person can get mono so lightly they don't even know they have gotten EBV, and EBV has a chemical structures similar to myelin.
Past/Current theory: it was thought that the immune system began fighting EBV, got confused between myelin & EBV then just continued to attack myelin once EBV had been destroyed. Starting an autoimmune disease in people genetically susceptible to MS.
This Article Theory: This article reports the findings of post mortem brain study of people with MS and the study actually found the EBV in MS brains....indicating an MS person's immune system might not be attacking 'self' but actually attacking a virus, the long suspected EB virus.
the article theory is a person who ultimately gets ms, gets EBV. the EB virus hides in white blood cells in the persons immune system. then the persons own immune system acts like a trojan horse bringing the virus into the brain/CNS tissue. the virsus then goes dormat in brain/CNS tissue where it sends out RNA messages to surrounding CNS tissue. likely in the process of replicating, spreading, i assume. the immune system then attacks these RNA messages from the dormant virus and that cause the MS episodes thought to be attacking self tissue but its actually attacking a virus RNA messages..
MS CONTAGIOUS: I still stand by my assertion the MS is not contagious by person to person transmission because the statistics do not show that there is any known person to person transmission. And this is a rather important subject for a person with MS to be certain of or we would end up being treated as lepers. we need to be able to disclose we have a non-contagious muscular/nervous disorder when we want to protect our privacy at work,but continue to be employed. disclose only as much as needed and no more. its a muscular-nervous disorder & its not contagious.
direct human to human transmissions follow a statistical pattern for each type of transmission & MS has never achieved a statistically significant level of any of the "known" human to human transmission to be any thing more than chance or genetic susceptibility.
read it your self to see what you think about the study. it gets rather difficult to follow with the theory of hiding in immune system then going dormant in the brain?
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/smd/61524.html
this study was published on Jan 4th. I though of you when i read it. An investigation of post mortem ms brains that did find a virus in post mortem ms brains, that raises the possibility that some MS is actually caused by a virus and not an autoimmune reaction..but caused by a virus in a way not thought of before.
History: ms has long been speculated to be a combination of genetic susceptibility & some kind of environmental trigger that starts the auto immune reaction.
the eb virus has long been suspected as the trigger but has never been proven to be the trigger. the virus that causes mono, most people have been exposed to it, a person can get mono so lightly they don't even know they have gotten EBV, and EBV has a chemical structures similar to myelin.
Past/Current theory: it was thought that the immune system began fighting EBV, got confused between myelin & EBV then just continued to attack myelin once EBV had been destroyed. Starting an autoimmune disease in people genetically susceptible to MS.
This Article Theory: This article reports the findings of post mortem brain study of people with MS and the study actually found the EBV in MS brains....indicating an MS person's immune system might not be attacking 'self' but actually attacking a virus, the long suspected EB virus.
the article theory is a person who ultimately gets ms, gets EBV. the EB virus hides in white blood cells in the persons immune system. then the persons own immune system acts like a trojan horse bringing the virus into the brain/CNS tissue. the virsus then goes dormat in brain/CNS tissue where it sends out RNA messages to surrounding CNS tissue. likely in the process of replicating, spreading, i assume. the immune system then attacks these RNA messages from the dormant virus and that cause the MS episodes thought to be attacking self tissue but its actually attacking a virus RNA messages..
MS CONTAGIOUS: I still stand by my assertion the MS is not contagious by person to person transmission because the statistics do not show that there is any known person to person transmission. And this is a rather important subject for a person with MS to be certain of or we would end up being treated as lepers. we need to be able to disclose we have a non-contagious muscular/nervous disorder when we want to protect our privacy at work,but continue to be employed. disclose only as much as needed and no more. its a muscular-nervous disorder & its not contagious.
direct human to human transmissions follow a statistical pattern for each type of transmission & MS has never achieved a statistically significant level of any of the "known" human to human transmission to be any thing more than chance or genetic susceptibility.
read it your self to see what you think about the study. it gets rather difficult to follow with the theory of hiding in immune system then going dormant in the brain?
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/smd/61524.html
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