The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was confirmed as a major culprit of multiple sclerosis (MS) by scientists. EBV is actually ubiquitous in the population and infects up to 95 percent of adults.
For years, this was a suspected possibility.The suspicion has been confirmed by a Harvard study published in the journal Science in January 2022.
U.S. active-duty military personnel require a blood test biennially, and the blood samples collected each time constitute a large and diverse blood bank of young people. Researchers determine the causation between EBV and MS based on the data provided by these blood samples.
The researchers found 955 individuals who later developed MS from more than 10 million U.S. military personnel who had served in the past. After checking their conditions, the researchers identified 801 people whose blood samples were collected and tested from 1993 to 2013. Meanwhile, more than 1,500 other military personnel were recruited as a control group. Their conditions were similar in all aspects to the first group of 801 individuals, but they didn’t have MS and were healthy….