{"id":181028,"date":"2024-01-21T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-a-single-study-proved-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-a-virus"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:32:22","slug":"how-a-single-study-proved-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-a-single-study-proved-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-a-virus","title":{"rendered":"How a Single Study Proved That Multiple Sclerosis Is Caused by a Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-single-study-proved-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-a-virus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1,868, Jean-Martin Charcot, a neurologist at the H\u00f4pital de Salp\u00e9tri\u00e8re in France, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1142241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\"> first coined<\/a> the disease \u201cla scl\u00e9rose en plaques,\u201d which means multiple sclerosis (MS) \u2014 to distinguish it from another type of movement disorder later known as Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Though described in 1,868, the cause of MS puzzled scientists for more than a century. This is until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abj8222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\"> a 2022 breakthrough study<\/a> finally enlightens us that the cause is, oddly, the seemingly innocent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common childhood virus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/epstein-barr\/about-ebv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\"> that causes<\/a> typical fever and sore throat.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see how one study single-handedly proves what we thought couldn\u2019t be proved; how one study truly deserves to be called a breakthrough; and how thorough and near-perfect science is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1,868, Jean-Martin Charcot, a neurologist at the H\u00f4pital de Salp\u00e9tri\u00e8re in France, first coined the disease \u201cla scl\u00e9rose en plaques,\u201d which means multiple sclerosis (MS) \u2014 to distinguish it from another type of movement disorder later known as Parkinson\u2019s disease. Though described in 1,868, the cause of MS puzzled scientists for more than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}