How a Single Study Proved the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis Is a Virus

In1868, Jean-Martin Charcot, a neurologist at the Hôpital de Salpétrière in France, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1142241/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">first coined</a> the disease “la sclérose en plaques,” which means multiple sclerosis (MS) — to distinguish it from another type of movement disorder later known as Parkinson’s disease. Though described in 1868, the cause of MS puzzled scientists for more than a century. This is until <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a 2022 breakthrough study</a> finally enlightens us that the cause is, oddly, the seemingly innocent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common childhood virus <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/epstein-barr/about-ebv.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">that causes</a> typical fever and sore throat. Let’s see how one study single-handedly proves what we thought couldn’t be proved; how one study truly deserves to be called a breakthrough; and how thorough and near-perfect science is done. <a href="https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/how-a-single-study-proved-the-cause-of-multiple-sclerosis-is-a-virus-60caab87163a">Click Here</a>