[truthandlife]

If AIDS doesn't scare you, this might.

[B-A-Grizzley]

This theory is pure bunk.

My dear wife has MS. She did not get it as an STD.

[Cicero]

Almost certainly bunk. It's remotely possible that MS might be triggered or made more likely in some fashion by some of the various STDs. Analogously, stress doesn't itself cause diseases, but it can trigger them or make them more likely or more severe. To take another example, the common cold is not a bacterial infection, but it can trigger bacterial infections by weakening the system.

Hawkes's theory is presented as a hypothesis. The way modern science works is that someone puts forward a hypothesis, sometimes an outlandish hypothesis, and then other scientists either prove or disprove it on the evidence. If they disprove it, then the hypothesis is ruled out and it could be said that science knows a little more than it did before.

There's also cost effectiveness. Is it worth while doing the studies that would definitively prove or disprove this hypothesis, which is probably bunk? I don't know.

[StockAyatollah]

If it is an STD then it would be commonplace in highly promiscuous populations, where AIDS is prominent. South Africa would be one such place, yet the article says MS is rare in Africa. Therefore, the theory is bunk. QED.

[PAR35]

Comments to previously posted version here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/753244/posts

MS May Be Sexually Transmitted - Doctor
REUTERS via AOL ^ | 9/18/02 | Unsigned

Posted on 09/18/2002 9:03 PM Central by IncPen

And, for some reason, it doesn't show up when you search on MS.

[FreedomFarmer]

MS May Be Sexually Transmitted

Gates is busy setting up the user fees.

[jalisco555]

Whether or not MS is an STD I don't know. However, we must be open to the possibility that diseases we don't think of as infectious may in fact be caused by infections we've not yet identified. The most prominent example of this shift in thinking was the discovery that most gastric ulcers as well as many gastric cancers are caused by a bacterial infection and not simply a derangement of acid production.

[MedicalMess]

You are all wrong and full of crap because none of you have studied this disease.

There are probably at least 20 pathogens that will cause MS symptoms. Several clinics have treated MS successfully with antibiotics with between 25 and 45% success rates. Other people have been cured through adult revaccinations for child diseases and the new Chickenpox vaccine with 30% success rates. Fungus has been documented and completely overlooked in treatment.

For the record MS is Sub-acute Chronic Stealth Infection of meningitis/encephalitis origin.

I am working on this data and have six hypothetical strategies ready to go. The first two are treatment with Diflucan and HHV6/Chickenpox vaccination. The third treatment uses Penicillin VK/Augmentin/Rifampin only if patient is absent positive test for Clostridium species. Fourth formula involves Levaquin/Doxicycline/Azithromycin. Fifth formula involves Flagyl/TMP-SMX. Sixth formula is still under consideration.

These formulas are based on safety first and expected pathagen population distribution numbers second. Cost is not a consideration with MS patients because of severity of prognosis.

There are at least four pathogens whose primary means of transmission is sexual and can be easily overlooked because they are stealth in nature. They are known to cause plaques in various locations of the body.

If you want more information on dosages and substantiating documents you can pay me $30 for the proof and $150 for the formulas and treatment strategies.