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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by f38zf5vdt on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:24PM (#29938081)
If you're going to develop MS as an adult after getting EBV mononucleosis, it's likely that it will be soon (5-10 years) after you have the initial infection as an adult. There's only a long delay in children according to one study. [1] Every passing year the probability of getting MS should decay after that.

Female sex and EBV mononucleosis during adolescence are the biggest risk factors.

[1] https://nn.neurology.org/content/4/3/e308

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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by Broken_Hippo on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:32AM (#29945111)
Scores of folks with MS never had mono. I'm one of those. It isn't mono that is the risk factor, but EBV itself.
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Re:Multiple Sclerosis Causality by config_yml on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:57PM (#29941009)
Interesting. My sister and I both had mononucleosis before puberty, and she was diagnosed with MS in her late twenties.
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