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Multiple sclerosis may be caused by common ‘kissing disease’ virus: scientists - New York Post

Multiple sclerosis may be caused by common ‘kissing disease’ virus: scientists - New York Post

Multiple sclerosis may be caused by common ‘kissing disease’ virus: scientists - New York Post
Jan 14, 2022 45 secs

A virus that infects more than 90% of adults and causes the “kissing disease” has been linked with the onset of multiple sclerosis in a new study.

Researchers at Harvard University have added further evidence that the same virus which causes the illness mononucleosis, a k a “mono,” and commonly passed through saliva — hence “kissing disease” — may also encourage the development of multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system.

“The hypothesis that EBV causes MS has been investigated by our group and others for several years, but this is the first study providing compelling evidence of causality,” said the study’s senior author, Alberto Ascherio, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H.

He said, “Currently there is no way to effectively prevent or treat EBV infection, but an EBV vaccine or targeting the virus with EBV-specific antiviral drugs could ultimately prevent or cure MS.”

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