Re: Re: Stress May Increase Risk for Developing Multiple Sclerosis

March 9, 2004

Rodney: Fascinating. Where could we read this study? Can anyone find it

online? There's so much we don't know about illness. There are other

diseases spread by birds, not to speak of the recent " bird flu " scare that

came out of the Orient.

On another subject, I sent you an offlist e-mail that may have gone into

your " bulk " mailbox (as another one did). Please check.

on 3/9/2004 1:37 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

> Hi Francesca:

>

> On the subject of MS ......... a careful study of the lives of

> hundreds of MS sufferers done at the University of Montreal,

> published about a year ago, found only one thing that seemed to be a

> common thread. They found that an inordinately large proportion of

> families with a case of MS had owned pet birds.

March 9, 2004

But surprisingly a connection between other pets/cats and men!

on 3/9/2004 3:34 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

> There is more info in that article than I had seen before. And

> interestingly, each of the cases I uncovered of a bird/MS connection

> were among females - the article notes the bird/MS connection seems

> to apply only to females.

>

> Rodney.

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