Last week, we started a very interesting thread in the Inroductions section regarding how often we should expect to see MS occur in BOTH a husband and a wife (or significant other). VladFT did an excellent
analysis of the statistics and came up with the expected number of such situations in the USA.
His conclusion:
"The total number of marriages with both partners having MS MUST be less then 114"
The entire thread, and his very well presented mathematic reasoning is here:
http://www.thisisms.com/modules.php?nam ... pic&t=1324
Now then, if the true number of such marriages is more than approximately 114, then it implies a VERY important idea-- that MS might just have a communicable component. Now we are of course not attempting to conduct Journal of Neurology-esque research here, but it would be extremely interesting to get an idea of just how prevalent this is.
Your thoughts and experiences?