ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2009) — Over the last 40 years, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been repeatedly associated with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. During the 2nd European Congress of Immunology ECI 2009 held in Berlin, Francesca Aloisi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità , Rome, will present new data* that further support the link. In the brain lesions of patients with multiple sclerosis her team found abnormal accumulation of EBV infected B lymphocytes. Similar findings were made in the pathological tissues of patients with other autoimmune diseases.
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I have never had EBV and I have MS. There has been a pointer to the measles virus too but in my mind it is all a stab in the dark. Maybe it could have been cos I had meningitis when I was about 6. Who knows I don't and the medical profession keep trying. WHERE IS THE CURE???
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