Chris- Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Multiple Sclerosis Is Likely Caused by a Virus, Finds Study of 10 Million Military Personnel | Technology Networks WWW.TECHNOLOGYNETWORKS.COM The demyelinating neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complication of infection by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), suggests a new study published in Science by researchers at Harvard Medical School. TIL that this exists: Quote Ascherio and his team found that exceptional sample in the records of the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR). All active US military personnel are required to submit a blood serum sample at the start and then after every two years of service. Primarily designed to detect HIV, the DoDSR has built up to a vast cornucopia of biological data made up of over 62 million serum samples taken from over 10 million individuals 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 This has been suspected for a long time, but never confirmed. Moderna is preparing an EBV mRNA vaccine, which would be fantastic. It will likely be marketed as a "mono" vaccine, but if it lowers the prevalence of MS then that's even better. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: This has been suspected for a long time, bit still not confirmed. Moderna is preparing an EBV mRNA vaccine, which would be fantastic. It will likely be marketed as a "mono" vaccine, but if it lowers the prevalence of MS then that's even better. That would be fucking fantastic news if it works. My cousin’s wife has it and has started to get worse recently. The same goes for one of my manager’s wife, but I think she’s a little worse. He’s had to take a few days off here and there on her rougher days at home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 9 minutes ago, silentbob said: That would be fucking fantastic news if it works. My cousin’s wife has it and has started to get worse recently. The same goes for one of my manager’s wife, but I think she’s a little worse. He’s had to take a few days off here and there on her rougher days at home Yeah my wife has it. Obviously even better than a vaccine would be new antivirals to target EBV. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 12 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: This has been suspected for a long time, bit still not confirmed. Moderna is preparing an EBV mRNA vaccine, which would be fantastic. It will likely be marketed as a "mono" vaccine, but if it lowers the prevalence of MS then that's even better. Talk about one I would line up to get. I had mono a few years ago (from playing flip cup is my guess) and holy shit it was exhausting. I lost 10 lbs in a week and slept 21 hours a day during that time. I could only get water/pedialyte and an occasional Wendy’s frosty down my throat it hurt so bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Talk about one I would line up to get. I had mono a few years ago (from playing flip cup is my guess) and holy shit it was exhausting. I lost 10 lbs in a week and slept 21 hours a day during that time. I could only get water/pedialyte and an occasional Wendy’s frosty down my throat it hurt so bad. That's freshman year shit my man. Not even sophomoric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 17 minutes ago, Chris- said: That's freshman year shit my man. Not even sophomoric. I was like 3 years out of college! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I had mono and strep throat at the same time. It was unpleasant especially swallowing the giant horse pills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 i’ve had mono and it’s horrible. i got it the week of college finals. no idea how i got through that i was a sweaty exhausted mess. then doctor thought it was an infection and prescribed penicillin which gave me a pretty bad rash. went to a different doctor and he was like “oh it’s mono”. would not wish mono on anybody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 <---- has never had mono nor strep throat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: <---- has never had mono nor strep throat. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I've had MS for about 15 years, I don't recall ever having mono though. Thankfully my MS has been an extremely mild case outside of my initial flare up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 21 minutes ago, johnny said: i’ve had mono and it’s horrible. i got it the week of college finals. no idea how i got through that i was a sweaty exhausted mess. then doctor thought it was an infection and prescribed penicillin which gave me a pretty bad rash. went to a different doctor and he was like “oh it’s mono”. would not wish mono on anybody Lmao same thing happened to me I forgot. Hives all over my body. And the mono test was just a pinprick on my finger so I was angry they didn’t even check that before giving antibiotics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Chris- said: That's freshman year shit my man. Not even sophomoric. I never got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 I said wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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