[Desparado]

My wife’s brother who has lived all his life in Miami, Florida, Was diagnosed with MS when he was 30. He is now 65 and is in a convalescent hospital in Miami. He is bedridden and has no control of his lower body. The interesting thing is we know of at least 10 other people who have MS or have died of complications from MS who attended the same high school in the same decade that he went there. The most common guess is that it had something to do with the water supply to the school, but there are no concrete answers. I doubt lack of sunlight or vitamin D was a factor though. Not in Miami Florida. And it’s a whole lot closer to the equator than Syracuse. Just sayin...

[Rockingham]

A viral pathogen is suspected as the immediate cause of MS, with low vitamin D levels thought to be a contributory factor. The chickenpox virus (varicella zoster) is increasingly implicated in MS, although more than a simple infection seems involved. Perhaps a variant strain or host genetics are involved, or co-infection with another pathogen. Whoever figures it out and offers definitive proof is likely to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.