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This is interesting. #EBV gave me #MECFS and I have a lot of the symptoms people with #MS get, but thankfully I am not that severe and I don’t have lesions.

I don’t know if I have this gene variant.

“The team found that people who carry a genetic variant called HLA-E*01:01 are more likely to develop MS than people without the variant, but only if they have previously had #mono.”

Scientists uncover possible missing link between 'mono' virus and multiple sclerosis | Live Science livescience.com/health/viruses

Live Science · Scientists uncover possible missing link between 'mono' virus and multiple sclerosisBy Lydia Smith