In France, 100,000 people suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central nervous system – brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. This pathology (which is diagnosed each year in 5,000 new patients) leads to demyelination, ie a progressive degradation of myelin, the protective sheath that surrounds neurons.
The symptoms are very variable: cognitive language disorders, dizziness, extreme fatigue, walking and/or balance disorders, visual disturbances, tremors, tingling in the extremities, urinary, intestinal and/or sexual problems…
Good news: to silence dangerous preconceived ideas, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (in Germany) have just shown that vaccines cannot be a cause of multiple sclerosis.
No causal link between vaccination and multiple sclerosis
Led by Prof. Bernhard Hemmer, director of the university’s neurology department, the German researchers worked from medical data concerning 200,000 people, including 12,000 patients with multiple sclerosis.
Results ? The researchers found that, 5 years before the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, the vaccination rate among future patients was well below average – in particular for the vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia and pneumococcal septicemia, the MMR (measles , rubella and mumps) and the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
“These vaccines cannot therefore be responsible for the occurrence of multiple sclerosis, the researchers point out. On the contrary, it would even seem that vaccination constitutes protection against this disease of the nervous system, which will have to be confirmed by future studies. . “
This work was published in the medical journal neurology.
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