Infection and Multiple Sclerosis
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May 2000 Some research in the US has proposed the presence of Chlamydia Pneumonia in a substantial proportion of MS sufferers. A further study by a different group was unable to repeat the US findings but made the comment that the detection methods were difficult. A new study is now underway in Dundee (Scotland). Spinal taps will be taken from a number of known MS sufferers and a number of people from the general population to compare the presence of Chlamydia Pneumonia in both. This will be followed by a series of monthly scans on some of those who test positive. In a town in the US where germ warfare tests were carried out on inmates at a local prison, an outbreak of ME/CFS was noted alongside one of MS. Was is being proposed is that these were linked to tests in the prison - which would seem to imply and infectious cause of both ME and MS. |
