In the development and exacerbation of MS, viruses have often been implicated. This multiple sclerosis-viruses association is one that has great implications for understanding the nature of multiple sclerosis.

Examining the MS-Viruses Relationship

It has been speculated that viral infections are involved in triggering multiple sclerosis in particular people, and that these viral infections are further implicated in triggering flare ups of multiple sclerosis afterwards. The studies that have focused on this subject have tended to examine the relationship between stages in infection and the state of the multiple sclerosis patient’s health. For instance, it has been shown that these patient first developed MS symptoms after having succumbed to particular forms of viral infection. It has also been shown that subsequent episodes of viral replication and activity in the body coincide with the flaring up of multiple sclerosis symptoms. Not surprisingly, the treatment of these viral infections stops …