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Study in monkeys suggests virus may cause multiple sclerosis

July 4, 2011
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A strange disease began killing monkeys at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in 1986. Some animals developed an unsteady gait and a quickly advancing paralysis of the limbs. Caregivers couldn’t do anything to stop the disease and euthanized most of the monkeys within a week of symptom onset. The disease, researchers now report,...

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