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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by danuker on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:16PM (#29937973)
> According to epidemiological studies, the EBV is estimated to be positive in more than 90% of the world's populations

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6008310/

> A total of 2.8 million people are estimated to live with MS worldwide (35.9 per 100,000 population)

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720355/

Given that you have EBV, I guess you're in the unlucky 90%, increasing your odds from 359 in a million to a ...whopping... 399 in a million.

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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by BobbyJo on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:28PM (#29938145)
Since the risk for the non-EBV group is 32x less, you'd be increasing your odds from like 11 in a million to 399 in a million no?
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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by andi999 on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:42PM (#29938344)
If you knew you were negative yes, if the status was unknown then not.
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