Re: ms caused by external factors

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> I AGREE with your observation - MS is probably caused by

> something external to the body. Chicken pox is a likely

> culprit - so is mumps, measles, mono nucleosis, severe

> trauma.

it's important to differentiate between symptoms and actual disease.

I keep going back to an article I read that I can't find where an MS

tech noted that

5% of the people who came in for non-MS mri's showed some MS lesions.

5% is 50 in a thousand, and yet only 1 in a thousand is actually

diagnosed with MS.

So 49 out of 50 people walking around with lesions have no MS symptoms.

If symptoms were the disease then these people wouldn't have it?

If this is true, then various kinds of trauma may bring out the

symptoms, but

saying they 'cause' MS is going a bit far. They cause the underlying

problem

to be noticeable...