Before COVID we didn’t even know a virus causes multiple sclerosis. They just figured out how it does it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In the interest of avoiding historical revisionism, here id the first line of this paper: "Infection has long been hypothesized as the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS)". Virologists were convinced by the EBV-MS link for a very long time. doi.org/10.1128/mmbr...
sep 2, 2025, 7:50 am • 7 2 • view
EBV is necessary but not *sufficient* for MS to occur... You need other factors (like human genetic background and possibly other infections). The timing of primary infection matters too, with delayed primary infection (ie getting EBV as a teenager or young adult rather than a child) higher risk.
sep 2, 2025, 7:51 am • 4 1 • view
yes, it was long hypothesised but the study proving the viral link was published Jan 22. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... The paper linked in the original post is showing the mechanical way the virus causes MS. Its not necessary to educate me on this.
sep 2, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The point of my post was not that we didnt know anything abt viruses causing neurological disorders prior to COVID, but rather that in the past 5 years the science behind our understanding of this link has accelerated.
sep 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Apologies for the harsh tone of my first reply.
sep 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 2, 2025, 8:12 am • 0 0 • view
Well, before Covid, I learned that my fine motor skills disability was ultimately caused by a virus that lives in my brain and nobody knows how it got there but they know that I contracted it around age 5. They also knew (before covid) that the collection of germs that cause gingivitis also (cont'd)
sep 2, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
(res) also cause heart disease and a number of other deadly conditions. (I guess that was supported by a study that showed an inverse mortality rate to age people got dentures) Also, there has been serious consideration of a theory that cancer is in some way related to viruses for over 10 years now.
sep 2, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
Way longer than ten years, and causation is a fact in the case of cervical cancer and HPV - and strongly linked with hepatocellular carcinoma and HBV, and nasopharyngial carcinoma and Burkitt lymphoma and EBV.
sep 2, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, I have written about this. I think the point of my original post was not understood correctly. medium.com/@socialcreat...
sep 2, 2025, 2:39 pm • 3 1 • view
I was replying to @signfire.bsky.social - a lot of people don't appreciate that quite a few cancers are very strongly linked to viruses. You are not among them!😁
sep 2, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 0 • view
The real lesson of COVID isn't going to be about which party did what, or whether the policies were good or bad, or anything abstract like that. The REAL lesson is going to take a bit longer to play out, as viruses do, but when it arrives for you, it'll be VERY personal.
sep 1, 2025, 7:35 pm • 14 3 • view
Because after all that fraught disruption everyone ended up pretending anyway, it just took longer to get there. bsky.app/profile/nich...
sep 1, 2025, 9:43 pm • 5 0 • view
I actually can't think of a better time to eliminate vaccine programs, destroy biomedical research, and do a eugenics jubliee.
sep 1, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
My brain misread MS as ME, which had me confused as we already knew that. Ironic that it’s the same virus linked to both!
sep 2, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Many viruses lead to ME. I suspect its some kind of common root cause immune response. Which is essentially also the nature of the mechanism of the EBV pathway to MS. EBV is also highly correlated with breast cancer. That virus seems to cause all kinds of varieties of damage.
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